Catholic family survives gun attack

A CATHOLIC family attacked by bullets and a petrol bomb as they slept had survived an earlier explosion at their home, it emerged yesterday.

A man, his wife and their four children, aged 11 to 18, had gone to bed in Coleraine, Co Derry, when gunmen struck last night.

Five shots smashed through the living room window at Quickthorn Place in the staunchly Protestant Harper’s Hill. A petrol bomb was also thrown at a car parked outside but failed to ignite.