Republican News · Thursday 2 August 2001

[An Phoblacht]

Double bomb attack on family of four

A family of four escaped injury when two pipe bombs exploded on the windowsill of their house on the Larne Road outside Carrickfergus in County Antrim at around 4am on Sunday 29 July.

A man and woman and their two children, aged 15 and 5, were asleep upstairs when the devices exploded. One neighbour, who heard the blast, said he had no idea why the family should be targeted.

other neighbour said the town was normally quiet, with the exception of the Twelfth, when ``there's usually trouble''.


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