Mother and children unhurt in Belfast petrol-bomb attack

A mother and her children have escaped injury during an overnight petrol bomb attack in east Belfast.

The family were inside a house at Glenlea Park in Garnerville that was slightly damaged when a car was set alight outside the property just after midnight.

The PSNI said a window of the car was smashed and a petrol bomb was thrown inside, but it had yet to establish a motive for the attack.

In July, the Ulster Volunteer Force expelled the families of rival Loyalist Volunteer Force members from the Garnerville estate as part of a feud that has so far claimed four lives.

Meanwhile, a young woman also had her car stolen at gunpoint by two men in west Belfast last night.

The incident happened in the car park of the Westwood shopping centre at around 9.45pm.

Police said the woman was pulled from the vehicle by her hair by two men in their early 20s who escaped along Kennedy Way.