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Two sets of neighbours had a lucky escape after one house was petrol bombed and a shot fired through next door's front window.
Six people including three young children were sleeping when a flaming milk bottle was thrown through their living room window in Stepney.
The attack early yesterday followed an argument between a cyclist outside the firebombed house and a driver who reportedly threatened to shoot him, the Metropolitan Police said.
According to the force, the cyclist was getting on his bike when a black VW Golf collided with him and knocked him down just before midnight on Wednesday, grazing his leg.
The pair clashed, with the driver suffering a cut head and the police being called.
But tempers calmed down and the driver - described as black and in his late twenties or early thirties - left the scene.
Two and a half hours later a gunshot was heard, shortly before the petrol bomb was thrown through the house in Antill Terrace.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23864179-sleeping-children-escape-gun-and-firebomb-attack-in-east-london.do