3 arrested after petrol-bombing

A 29-year-old man is to appear before Belfast Magistrates Court this morning charged in connection with a petrol bomb attack …

A 29-year-old man is to appear before Belfast Magistrates Court this morning charged in connection with a petrol bomb attack in north Belfast early yesterday . The RUC also arrested two women after a petrol bomb was thrown into the garden of a house at Kansas Avenue, in the Skegoniel area, at 4 a.m.

Meanwhile, a 48-year-old man remains in a critical condition in hospital after he suffered severe burns in an arson attack on his home in Park Road, Dungannon, Co Tyrone.

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