NI racists target Portuguese family

A Portuguese family were today the latest victims of a racist attack in Northern Ireland.

A Portuguese family were today the latest victims of a racist attack in Northern Ireland.

Police were investigating a petrol bomb which was thrown at the family's home in Portadown's Armagh Road at 8.20 p.m. last night.

The front window and wall of the house were scorch damaged.

Witnesses saw a tall, thin man in dark clothing running away in the direction of Armagh Road and Church Street Junction.

Police in Lurgan Road have appealed to other people in the area who saw anything suspicious to come forward.

Portadown has a number of Portuguese families living in the town, employed in local factories.

It isn't the first time the community has been targeted.

In August, the homes of two Portuguese families were targeted when a number of people kicked and battered in the doors of their flats in Moeran Park in an early morning attack.

Members of the Fillipino and Vietnamese communities have also been victims of racial attacks in the town.

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