Spate of shootings in Portadown

There has been a spate of shooting incidents in Portadown overnight

with three houses coming under attack.

Shots were fired at a house in Granville Road, Portadown, Armagh at around 11.30pm on Sunday.

Ten minutes later, a gun attack was launched on a house in Westland Road. At 12.05am on Monday, a home in Robinsonstown Road was also targeted.

There were people in all three houses during the attacks but no one was injured.

In a separate incident in Derry, a pub sustained slight damage after a pipe bomb blew up outside it.

The device had been lit and left on the windowsill of the Village Tavern in Castlerock at around 12.20am. It fell to the ground and exploded.