Youth group attack 'sectarian'

Police are treating as sectarian an attack on teenage church group members outside an ice rink in east Belfast.

Two windows in their minibus were smashed outside the Ice Bowl in Dundonald on Saturday at about 2200 BST.

Four members of the group from Knappagh Presbyterian Church in Armagh were pushed and punched as they stepped off the vehicle.

It is understood the group, in their early teens, were mistaken for Catholics.

One boy was reported to have been hit on the head with a stone.

The teenagers were not seriously hurt but were shaken by the incident.

In a statement, Castlereagh Borough Council said Ice Bowl staff did all they could to protect and assist the young people until police arrived.