Detectives yesterday drafted in a translator to help question a group of Lithuanians who were attacked in Armagh.
Several people escaped injury after a petrol bomb struck the front door of a house in the city late on Sunday. Twenty-four hours earlier a 34-year-old Lithuanian man was beaten by a seven-strong gang at the same house in the Alexander area of the city. The man received fractures to his ribs and upper body. Minor scorch damage was caused to the front door of the house.
Detectives said they were investigating a possible racist motive behind both incidents.
Meanwhile, a number of people have escaped injury during a possible racist attack on a house in south Belfast.
A window was smashed after stones were thrown at the house on the Donegall Road shortly before 9 p.m. on Sunday.
It is believed the people living in the house are eastern European. - (PA)