Pipe-bombers strike again

Two more pipe bomb attacks have been staged in Northern Ireland during the night.

No one was injured in the attacks, which happened in Portrush, County Derry, and in Ballymena, Co Antrim.

In the first incident, in Portrush, a number of families were evacuated from their homes in Glenmanis Park as security forces dealt with a device which was thrown through the living room window of one house.

The device, which failed to explode, was made safe by Army bomb disposal experts.

An unoccupied Ford Escort car was damaged in the second attack, when a pipe bomb exploded in Shetland Park, Ballymena.

The incidents were the latest in a series of pipe bomb attacks over recent days.

A home was damaged a house in the Derriaghy area of Lisburn.

A pipe bomb also exploded at a Catholic home in Kylemore Road on Sunday, and on the same day the window of a Catholic Church in Glennock, Newtownstewart, Co Tyrone, was shattered by a similar crude device.