Man held over NI pipe bomb attack

A 23-year-old man has been arrested in relation to a pipe bomb attack on a Belfast house last month.

A 23-year-old man has been arrested in relation to a pipe bomb attack on a Belfast house last month.

The man was arrested in the Newtownabbey area this morning.

The attack on the home of a community worker in north Belfast was the third attack on the property this year.

The device exploded outside the front window of Mary Kelly’s house in Glandore Avenue at about 1am on June 22nd.

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A number of nearby homes were evacuated while Army bomb disposal experts made the area safe.

The bomb, which only partially detonated, badly damaged the window and sill.

Ms Kelly works on a number of cross-community projects in the area. There was a blast bomb attack on her home in April and some of her windows were smashed in January.