Donaghadee: petrol bomb attack probe

police probe petrol bomb attack Donaghadee
Author: Nigel GouldPublished 30th Mar 2023

Detectives are appealing for information following a report of a petrol bomb incident in Donaghadee.

In a statement the PSNI said: “Shortly before 9.50pm on Wednesday 29th March, officers received a report that a house in the Beechfield Drive area had been petrol bombed.

“The fire was extinguished and thankfully, there was no one in the property at the time.

“Enquiries are continuing, and at this stage, it is believed that this incident is linked to an ongoing feud between two rival drug gangs in the Ards and North Down area. We are following a number of lines of enquiry.

“I am appealing to anyone who was in the area this evening and saw anything suspicious, or anyone who may have any information which may assist us with our enquiries, to call 101, quoting reference number 2055 of 29/03/23.”

It follows several nights of a spate of petrol bomb attacks on houses in Newtownards and Bangor,

Those are being investigated as part of what is believed to be an ongoing loyalist feud.