Family dog killed and two people injured as Dublin gang firebombs wrong house
Two people were hospitalised and a family dog killed after reckless criminals firebombed the wrong house as part of an escalating Dublin feud.
The innocent family's home was targeted in an early morning attack in Ballyfermot, causing extensive damage.
Detectives believe it was carried out as part of a worsening city feud involving a young drug dealer and junior associates of mobster Brian Rattigan.
There has been a spate of assaults and petrol bombings in recent weeks while one property was also shot up last year.
Brian Rattigan is not suspected by gardaí of any direct involvement in the gang feud which is believed to be connected to the petrol bombing
An investigation is under way into the latest incident which happened at around 2.30am last Wednesday.
Emergency services including Dublin Fire Brigade, paramedics and gardaí were alerted and two people taken to hospital as a precaution.
Extensive damage was caused by a suspected petrol bomb and the family dog was killed.
The lads who were sent out to petrol bomb their target clearly got the wrong house
The residents who live at the property have no involvement in criminality and gardaí are satisfied the perpetrators targeted the wrong home.
A source said: 'This is a decent family who have absolutely no involvement in what has been going on. The lads who were sent out to petrol bomb their target clearly got the wrong house.
'It shows the calibre of people involved in this feuding and how easily completely innocent people can get caught up in this'.
No arrests have been made.
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A Garda spokesperson confirmed that an investigation into the incident of criminal damage by fire is under way.
The Sunday World previously revealed how a partner of one of the feuding criminals was also warned by her boyfriend's rivals that she would be burnt out of her home.
A drug dealer in his 20s is centrally involved in the dispute and was the victim of a violent attack
Her partner, a drug dealer aged in his 20s, is centrally involved in the dispute and was the victim of a violent attack in the city centre recently.
He was beaten over the head with weapons and also stabbed while receiving a bad slash wound to his face.
His family home was also shot at in May of last year while his home and car were smashed up days before the assault on him.
Days after that attack a series of co-ordinated petrol bomb attacks linked to the dispute were carried out in Drimnagh and Kildare.
Gardaí believe two brothers, who are in their early 20s and junior associates of convicted killer Rattigan, are leading the feud against the young drug dealer.
Rattigan led a gang involved in the deadly Crumlin/Drimnagh feud
They were previously part of the same drugs gang but last year fell out in a row over drugs as well as a personal dispute over a woman.
Rattigan led a gang involved in the deadly Crumlin/Drimnagh feud which claimed more than a dozen lives in the 2000s. He has served lengthy jail terms for drug offences and manslaughter.
The mobster is not suspected of playing any direct role in the feud but gardaí believe he still has a key role in criminality in the area.
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