Vigil held after Lurgan bomb
The father of two children caught up in a bomb attack in Lurgan last week says they have been left badly traumatised.
Frankie Maguire’s daughters aged two and twelve were with another young girl in the Killmaine area last week when the device exploded.
They were on the other side of the road and escaped serious injury.
“The wee one has actually talked more about the bomb”, Mr Maguire told UTV.
“She gets up in the mornings and says daddy there was a big, a big bomb and I had to run”
“The older girl, during the day she is ok but at night when she goes to bed and has time to think about it she has asked her mummy to get into bed beside her”, he added.
Mr Maguire was speaking on Saturday as he attended a vigil in the area following the attack.
Residents and clergymen took part in the cross community prayer vigil.
Reverend Geoff Wilson from the Shankill Parish in Lurgan said people were calling for an end to violence.
“It is very important for us as church leaders to stand together at times like this and to make a statement not only to our own community but to the wider community that we don’t want violence, we want peace in out town and in our community”, he said.
The message from Saturday’s vigil was the dissident campaign of violence must end.
