An eight-year-old Nigerian girl has been injured in a suspected racist attack on her family's home in Dundonald, which has now been targeted twice in the past week. A brick thrown at the home of Charles Awoyelu and his wife Monica in the Brooklands Estate, at around 5.30am on Saturday. It smashed through a bedroom window where Promise, one of their five children, was sleeping - she was taken to hospital with a head injury. The youngster has since been released. Mr Awoyelu says he doesn't understand why his family are being targeted. "I just do not know why anyone would target a defenceless family," he told UTV. "We are just shattered - we don't know what to do. We are confused, angry and afraid. I don't know why we deserve this." The attack comes after a similar incident last Sunday evening, when two windows of the house were smashed as well as the car windscreen. Mr Awoyelu - biomedical scientist at the Ulster Hospital - has been living in east Belfast for several months, but he says the family have now decided to leave.
He added: "We have been here for six or seven months and our neighbours have been nice, we haven't had any problem with anybody. "I go about my business and I am a peace-loving person trying to raise a young family here. But I have to get out of the area now because of our safety." local MLA Robin Newton has condemned the attack. The DUP representative said: "This was a disgraceful attack on a family who are part of the community within Ballybeen. "Having spoken to local residents in the area today they want to make clear their hope that this family will not be forced from the area because of a few racist thugs. "The Awoyelu family have received assistance from the community and in particular from their church and these actions are the true face of people in Ballybeen." Police have asked anyone with information on the attacks to come forward.
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