Belfast hotel evacuated after petrol bomb attack
A Belfast hotel was evacuated in the early hours of this morning after a petrol bomb attack on the building.
Around 150 people were removed from the hotel on Hope Street after a number of devices were thrown at a central heating tank and the premises’ fire exits at around 4am.
Nobody was injured, but the bombs caused minor damage to the outside of the hotel.
The PSNI is trying to establish a motive for the incident.
The hotel is located in the loyalist Sandy Row area, where residents have been opposing new developments that they say are changing the area’s population make-up.
