Stanhope Street: Homes evacuated after Belfast house explosion

Homes in Stanhope Street have been evacuated, with police cordons in place as Army bomb experts carry out an investigation.

Nugent said: “I was just woke up with an explosion at just after three o’clock. [I] jumped up, trying to get the kids out.

“There was so much smoke so we couldn’t really see what they were doing.”

She said she “definitely, 100%” believed it was a case of mistaken identity.

She said she was still in shock and did not want to think about what could have happened.