Mrs Way appealed for a ban on fireworks

Neither Christine nor Peter Way were in the front room of their Tonypandy, Rhondda, home when a firework hit their porch, smashed through a pane of glass, and exploded.

The force of the blast caused the ceiling in the porch to collapse, and two windows and a door were smashed and ripped from their hinges.

Police are still investigating whether or not the act , which happened at 2145 BST at Station Road, Trealaw on Wednesday night, was deliberate.

The attack comes as a 20-year-old man is appearing in court in connection with a suspected firework attack on a Port Talbot flat.

We were bombarded with fireworks - please ban them before somebody is killed Christine Way

Mrs Way was out at the time of the attack, but said if she had been sitting in her usual seat, she could have died.

Her husband, who was in the house, had luckily got out of his armchair and was in the kitchen when the firework hit.

"If I had been sitting there, I could have been killed easy enough. I could have been in hospital," he said.

Mrs Way added: "Peter went out to the kitchen and when he came back the whole place was full of smoke and explosions.

"We were bombarded with [fireworks] - please ban them before somebody is killed."

The incident is the third serious firework on a home in Wales in the run-up to Bonfire Night.

A 20-year-old man is appearing in court charged with arson with intent to endanger life in connection with a fire at a pensioner's flat in Port Talbot, south Wales.

It is believed that the blaze, which was discovered on Tuesday, was started by a firework.

Police said it went through a window into the elderly woman's flat at Cardigan House on Moorland Road in the Sandfields estate.

The man charged is appearing before Port Talbot magistrates on Thursday.

The pensioner and three others were treated at Neath Port Talbot Hospital for smoke inhalation.

The heat from the flames was so intense that the window frames of the flat melted. Neighbouring flats were also badly damaged by smoke.

In west Wales, a grandmother was set on fire when the chair she was sitting in was hit by a firework launched through her front window.