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Children saved from petrol-bomb attack

Monday 25 March 1996 00:02 GMT
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Children saved from

petrol-bomb attack

Police were appealing for witnesses after a petrol bomb was thrown through the window of a flat in which two children slept on Saturday night.

The two children, six months and two years, were rescued by four babysitters,who put out the blaze at the flat in Penhill, Wiltshire. All six were taken to hospital in Swindon for check-ups. A boy, 16, was arrested by police on suspicion of arson.

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