A family escaped injury last night when their home was attacked in a shooting linked to a feud among rival loyalist paramilitary factions.
Forensic experts were today examining bullets fired at the house at Clare Glen, in the Ballysillan district of north Belfast.
Five shots were fired through the living room window of the house. A couple and their two children were at home when the gunmen struck last night.
Sources have linked the shooting to a bitter power-struggle inside the Ulster Defence Association, Northern Ireland's largest loyalist group.
Earlier, a UDA commander was targeted by bombers for a third time within a fortnight.
Army explosives experts defused a pipe bomb outside the home of Mr John "Grug" Gregg on the outskirts of the city. Mr Gregg is closely aligned to the team that expelled Johnny Adair from the organisation in October, a move that apparently sparked the current tensions.