About 100 people, many of them elderly, were evacuated from their homes in Larne, Co Antrim, yesterday morning after a pipe-bomb was thrown at a house. The attack, on a house in Bryan Street, happened shortly after midnight. The device did not explode. An RUC spokesman said the attack is not believed to have been sectarian.
Meanwhile, a device was left in the porch of St Trea's Church on the Springhill Road, Moneymore, Co Derry. A telephone warning was made to police but the device did not explode and was made safe yesterday morning.