Gardaí are investigating a pipe bomb attack at a house in Limerick that is believed to be linked to a violent feud between rival groups on the south side of the city.
Locals reported that the improvised explosive device exploded with a loud bang after it landed in a rear garden of the house on Hyde Road, Ballinacurra Weston, at about 4am on Sunday.
“No injuries have been reported to gardaí,” the Garda Press Office said. “Inquiries are ongoing.”
It was the latest violent attack in the same area in just more than a week and Garda sources said they fear people will be seriously maimed or killed if the feud continues.
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A man escaped injury as shots were fired at him on Hyde Road late on January 23rd.
Some of the people involved in the feuding have close connections to the Dundon-McCarthy crime group which was responsible for the murder of a number of men in the city.
Several people are currently before the courts charged with serious criminal offences that gardaí suspect are connected with the current feuding.
A number of other homes as well as people have been targeted in stabbings, drive-by gun attacks, petrol bombings and pipe bomb attacks as part of the same feud.
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