Tourist bus stoned in Belfast
Sunday, 21 June 2009An open top sightseeing bus, with 40 tourists on board, was stoned in west Belfast this afternoon.
The PSNI said a number of youths wearing hooded tops were seen running away after the incident in Divis Street.
The tour company owner, Ben Allen, said one of the bus windows was smashed but that the 40 customers were uninjured.
Australians Eunice and Des Cassidy had only been in Belfast for an hour and were on the bus when the attack took place.
Mrs Cassidy said she was scared but, 'then we went on and everything was OK'.
Mr Allen described the attack as madness and said the driver of the bus thought youths aged from 13 to 18 were involved.
In recent years open top bus tours have become popular in Belfast and tourists usually visit republican and loyalist murals, as well as the Harland and Wolff shipyard and Stormont.
