Petrol bomb attack on Orange Hall

Updated: 16:06, Wednesday, 5 October 2005

A group of women escaped injury in a petrol bomb attack on an Orange Hall in north Belfast last night.

A device was thrown at the building on the Lower Whitewell Road shortly after 9pm but burnt itself out on a grassy area outside.

The women had been meeting in the hall. Police are treating the attack as sectarian.

Nigel Dodds of the DUP said the attack was odious and another example of the republican agenda of ethnic cleansing of Protestant culture and communities.

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