A fire at a house in Ballymena, Co Antrim, last night is being treated as a sectarian attack.
Fire and rescue service personnel were alerted shortly after 9pm and the house in the Dunclug estate was extensively damaged when they arrived.
Nobody was in the house at the time of the fire.
A relative said the family's windows had been broken regularly.
Colin Dickson from the Fire and Rescue Service said the blaze was intense and took an hour to extinguish.
'The firefighters had to face intense heat to search the premises to make sure no-one was trapped inside,' he said.
Meanwhile, a petrol bomb was thrown at an Orange hall in Main Street in nearby Rasharkin, Co Antrim, yesterday evening.
It failed to ignite.
A 38-year-old man has been charged with attempted arson and was expected to appear at Ballymena Magistrates' Court this morning.
