PUP member targeted in pipe bomb attack

Police in Northern Ireland have launched an investigation following a pipe bomb attack on the house of a member of the Progressive…

Police in Northern Ireland have launched an investigation following a pipe bomb attack on the house of a member of the Progressive Unionist Party.

The incident happened at a house on the Milltown Road in Antrim town at 3.30am.

Nobody was hurt in the attack.

The PUP's Ken Wilkinson was in the house and this morning he said he was lucky to be alive.

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