Blast bombers attacked another home in Northern Ireland, police said today. A device exploded after being thrown through a living room window in Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, last night.
No one was in the house on Schomberg Court at the time, but it is understood shrapnel was blasted across the room. Sources said it would have caused serious injury had anyone been nearby.
Two masked men seen running from the scene just after 11pm are thought to have got into a small dark car and driven off. Police have not revealed a reason for the attack, but it came less than 24 hours after a Catholic woman's home was hit by a blast bomb in north Belfast.
Detectives are examining a possible sectarian motive for the strike on Sharon O'Shea's house on Mountainview Gardens, off the Crumlin Road. The mother of two was slightly cut when windows were shattered and a car parked outside was also damaged.
Ms O'Shea was showered with glass but claimed it could have been so much worse. She said: "If it actually had come into the house I wouldn't be here. I would have been dead. "They obviously meant business throwing it at the bedroom. There was no way for me to get out."
Days earlier rioting nationalists had thrown blast bombs at police during a flashpoint Orange Order parade in north Belfast.