Filipino couples targeted in NI race attack

Two Filipino couples were today considering leaving their home in Northern Ireland after it was attacked for the second time …

Two Filipino couples were today considering leaving their home in Northern Ireland after it was attacked for the second time in a week.

Police were investigating a racial motive for the attack which occurred in the Killicomaine area of Portadown at around 1.55 a.m. when windows were smashed.

Last Thursday a boulder was thrown through the living room window of the house in Granville Street as well as bricks and potted plants.

The women, who both work as nurses at Craigavon Hospital, said people had been pleasant to them and they were puzzled by the attacks.

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"We are not doing any harm to the Irish people, even here in Killicomaine," one of them said.

She added that they were considering moving out.

The incident was condemned by the local MP, Ulster Unionist Party leader Mr David Trimble as well as Sinn Fein Assembly member John O'Dowd and the nationalist SDLP Assembly member Dolores Kelly.