Petrol bomb attack on Armagh home

Police are investigating a petrol bomb attack on a house in Lurgan, Co Armagh, overnight.

Police are investigating a petrol bomb attack on a house in Lurgan, Co Armagh, overnight.

Devices were thrown at the front and back of a house early in the morning on the mainly loyalist Mountainview Estate, which has been the scene of a series of incidents in the past months.

The device thrown at the rear of the property was extinguished, and the one at the front failed to ignite.

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