The RUC are investigating a number of violent attacks in the North last night.
In the first incident, the front door of a flat was blown off by shotgun blasts in the Castlerobin Road in Castlerea, South Belfast, shortly before midnight. A woman and her two young children were asleep in bed at the time of the attack and were unhurt.
A pipe bomb was thrown into a house at the rear of Alliance Avenue, off the Antrim Road in Belfast at 1.30 a.m. The man and woman living there escaped uninjured.
A 37-year-old man is in hospital after being stabbed at Parkmore Street in Belfast last night at around 11.30 p.m. An RUC spokesman said his injuries were not life threatening and a man has been arrested.
