A child whose family home was petrol-bombed in a case of mistaken identity managed to run to safety and alert neighbours that her siblings and mother were trapped inside by the flames.
One neighbour who helped to rescue the family at Meakstown near Finglas, north Dublin, told The Irish Times he could see children looking down at him from an upstairs bedroom window as fire spread towards them.
“I thought because the [child] had run out of the house then I’d be able to go in,” said Emma
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