London, Sep 17 - Some Indian families living in a housing estate in Portadown, a town in Britain's Northern Ireland province, have said they want to leave the area after racist attacks last week, according to reports.

The BBC said windows were smashed at two houses in the Killicomaine estate Sep 3 in what police said was a race hate crime.

One woman whose home was targeted said they were too scared to stay.

'We think it was young people, but we don't know who did it, we didn't recognise who was there but we know it was young boys and guys,' she told the BBC.

Her husband had taken their two children, aged two and seven, upstairs to bed before a rock crashed through their living room window.

The unnamed woman was quoted as saying they were expecting someone to do something 'to stop this kind of behaviour,' but her husband said that they would leave the area because 'it was no longer safe for us'.