Students flee blast bomb attack

Terrified students escaped injury early today when a blast bomb, studded with nails, was thrown through the window of their house.

Six people - five of them students - who live in the house in Tates Avenue, south Belfast, claim the attack followed earlier threats from the loyalist Ulster Defence Association.

Three people were in the living room of the house when a brick shattered the window of a downstairs bedroom next door shortly after midnight and a blast bomb was thrown in.

The device exploded causing extensive damage to the room. The three escaped physical injury but needed treatment for shock.

Today the residents of the house - both Catholics and Protestants - were planning to move out terrified of further attacks.