The Attack
The attack occurred at around half past four in the morning as the inhabitants of the house slept.A car containing members of the loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) arrived at the house and threw a petrol bomb threw a window at the rear of the house.The petrol bomb was made from a whiskey bottle.The sounds of the boy's shouting had woke up their mother to find her bedroom full of smoke.Chrissie Quinn, Raymond Craig and a family friend Christine Archibald escaped the resulting fire with minor injuries.Chrissie had thought the boys had escaped the fire as she couldn't locate them in the dense smoke before she jumped to safety from a first floor window.Two of the brother's bodies were found in their mother's bedroom and the other in another bedroom. Chrissie was taken to hospital and released the next day after receiving minor injuries and shock in the attack.
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