Gerry Adams' home attacked with 'explosive device’
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An explosive device has been thrown at the home of the former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams in West Belfast.
The home of senior Sinn Fein politician Bobby Storey was also targeted and follows nights of rioting in the city of Londonderry which the police are blaming on dissident republicans.
Mr Adams, who was leader of Sinn Fein from the 1983 until 2018, tweeted: "All well here. No one hurt. Thanks 4 all the texts & phone calls.
"Thanks 2 all the great neighbours, the Neighbourhood Watch & Sinn Fein reps who were here very quickly."
Gerry Kelly, a Sinn Fein spokesperson, appealed for calm and dubbed the incidents 'the desperate acts of increasingly desperate and irrelevant groups'.
He condemned the "reprehensible and cowardly attacks on the family homes of Gerry Adams and Bobby Storey."
Sinn Fein have said that Gerry Adams' children were in the driveway of his house minutes before the attack.
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