Sectarian attack in Dungannon
The County Tyrone family who narrowly escaped death at the hands of
loyalist terrorists have expressed their shock and horror at the
sectarian attack.
The mother and her four young children, the youngest of which is five
and the eldest 12, were asleep when the incident occurred at around
1am last Thursday. They were forced to flee the house after a
pipe-bomb was thrown through the kitchen window of the family's
Dungannon home.
Mary Quinn was asleep in the living room, while her children were
peacefully sleeping upstairs. Her husband, Patsy, was not in the
house at the time, and he expressed his amazement at the attack. ``I
have no idea why we were targeted. I suppose it was just because we
are an easy target with the main road running beside the house.''
This incident was the latest in a long line of indiscriminate
sectarian attacks on Catholic homes. Sinn Fein's Mid-Ulster Assembly
member, Francie Molloy, accused those who threw the bomb of trying to
``wipe out an entire family.''
Mr Molloy, in a statement, said the attack was ``part of an ever
increasing loyalist sectarian campaign. This sectarian campaign is
being encouraged by the stance taken by anti-Agreement unionists.
Their opposition to the Agreement is fuelling instability among the
unionist people. Into this unstable situation step loyalists with
pipe and petrol bombs. And, as usual, innocent and vulnerable
Catholics have to pay the price.''
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