Pensioners targeted in Belfast petrol bomb attack

A sectarian petrol bomb attack which set a row of homes on fire in Belfast was an attempt to murder pensioners as they slept, it was claimed today.

Pensioners targeted in Belfast petrol bomb attack

A sectarian petrol bomb attack which set a row of homes on fire in Belfast was an attempt to murder pensioners as they slept, it was claimed today.

Two bungalows in the nationalist Short Strand enclave were badly damaged - but the elderly residents escaped injury - when the devices were hurled from across an interface on the loyalist lower Newtownards Road.

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