A PETROL-bomb attack on the home of a woman and her five-week-old and four-year-old children at a west Belfast interface could have ended in disaster, it was warned last night.
None of the petrol bombs struck the house but their burning remains were found on the road outside the house at Kells Avenue in the loyalist Suffolk estate while another was found at the front door of the property.
DUP councillor Brian Kingston said the petrol bombs were thrown from the nationalist side of a peace wall be-side the mother's home.
They exploded at 11pm on Wednesday, 24 hours after the house had been struck by stones and bricks thrown over the wall.
"This attack could have set her house on fire," he said.
"The potential consequences of that, with two young children in the house, are simply horrendous.
"It is appalling, in this day and age, that the home of this young family should be subjected to a sectarian petrol bomb attack."
Mr Kingston said there was "contact between the two communities in Suffolk and Lenadoon to help avert incidents such as this".
Sinn Fein councillor Gerard O'Neill branded the attack a "disgrace" and said it would "not stop the good work continuing between the communities in Suffolk and Lenadoon".
"If it is sectarian then the people of the Suffolk estate should know that those that carried it out do not represent their neighbours in Lenadoon," he said.
"Sectarianism from whatever guise is a cancer in our society and needs treated as such."
Police are investigating and said no damage was caused to the house.