Sinn Fein offices petrol bombed

The Rath Mor centre in Creggan was damaged

Petrol bombs have been thrown at a Sinn Fein office in Londonderry.

Three devices were thrown at the premises in the Rath Mor centre in Creggan around midnight, breaking a window and causing minor smoke damage.

Police have appealed for anyone who saw suspicious activity in the area to contact them.

Sinn Fein assembly member Martina Anderson said "an anti-community element" was most likely to blame for the attack.

It came as three Sinn Fein councillors observed a District Policing Partnership meeting in the city.

Dissident republicans have been blamed for previous attacks on DPP members in Derry, but Ms Anderson said she had not encountered opposition to Sinn Fein's support of policing.

"We have carried out five public meetings across the city over the last two weeks, and anti-community violence was at the top of every agenda," she said.

"Not one person had anything other than endorsement of Sinn Fein's (policing) strategy.

"If it were, such an attack could only be viewed as a product of political and strategic bankruptcy. I think the activities of groups like that would in no shape or fashion advance the cause of Irish reunification."