{"id":594204,"date":"2026-08-15T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594204\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T16:12:09","slug":"people-inside-property-during-petrol-bomb-attack-in-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594204\/","title":{"rendered":"People inside property during petrol bomb attack in Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of people were inside a property when it was targeted in a petrol bomb attack in Belfast.<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating the incident at residential premises at the Hatfield Street area of the city in the early hours of Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said: \u201cShortly before 00:50am, it was reported to police that two masked men approached a property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was reported that one of the men threw a petrol bomb at the front of the house, which ignited and caused damage to a window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second man threw another object at the property, but it did not ignite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe men made off towards the Balfour Avenue area and the fire was extinguished by colleagues from the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA number of people were inside the property at the time of the incident, but there were no reports of any injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inquiries into the incident are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of people were inside a property when it was targeted in a petrol bomb attack in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-594204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}