A family of five narrowly escaped injury in a petrol bomb attack on their home in Ballymoney, Co Antrim.
Windows were smashed early yesterday and two petrol bombs were thrown into the house in Cloneen Drive in the town where the three Quinn children died in a similar attack last year.
The living room of the house was extensively damaged but Mr Derek McCook managed to get his wife, Esther, and three children outside and kept the fire under control until the emergency services arrived.
The children are aged between three and eight. Loyalists are believed to have been responsible. Police have yet to establish a motive for the attack on the Protestant family's home.
Mrs McCook pledged never to return to the house. "I am very angry. The children are in a real state and we are all lucky to be alive. Whoever did this got the wrong house."
The DUP mayor of Bally money, Mr Frank Campbell, condemned the attack.
"I find it very, very hard to understand why petrol bombs are being used to attack families," he said. "There is a lot of cross-community work going on here and relations are very good. The attack was a frightening flashback to the Quinn brothers tragedy but thankfully no one was injured. It will only serve to heighten tensions in the area ahead of the marching season."
The attack was condemned by Alliance councillor Ms Jayne Dunlop: "I find it hard to believe that anyone in Ballymoney could contemplate such an attack considering the tragic deaths of the Quinn brothers. Petrol bomb attacks are purely attempted murder and there can be no justification for such activity."
A man who was shot in the arm last night in north Belfast was taken to hospital for treatment, the RUC reported. The incident occurred at around 10.40 p.m. when the man was walking along the Old Park Road. A man alighted from a passing vehicle and shot him, the police said.