A young family escape injury after masked men armed with hatchets damaged a house in Larne

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It happened in the town during the early hours of this morning

Windows were smashed and the door was damaged at the house on the Seahill Road shortly after 1 this morning.

Around the same time, a similiar attack was carried out on a house in Fleet Street.

A couple in their twenties who were in the property at the time were not injured.

A short time later, a car was found abandoned in a field at Walnut Avenue and set on fire.

Police are now trying to establish a motive for the incidents and whether they are linked.

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