Children escape injury in gun attack

Three children escaped injury in an overnight gun attack on their family home in Co Antrim.

Three children escaped injury in an overnight gun attack on their family home in Co Antrim.

The children, aged 11, 14 and 18, were upstairs in bed when the gunman fired at the front door of the house in Cloughmills at around midnight.

Their parents, who were out at the time, were quickly alerted to the attack.

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