Garda hunt perpetrators of pipe bomb attacks

Gardaí are today hunting for the perpetrators of two overnight bomb attacks in Dublin.

It is believed young family who were the victims of the first attack in Spitalfields were not the intended targets.

It is now believed they were not the intended targets, and the bomb was thrown at the wrong house.

In a separate attack, a petrol bomb was thrown into a vacant house in Tymon North in Tallaght.

No arrests have yet been made, and gardaí are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed the incidents to contact them.