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Man seriously injured in shooting

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A 21-year-old man has been taken to hospital after he was seriously injured in a shooting in Portrush, Co Antrim.

A masked gang entered a house in the Windsor Place area on Tuesday night shortly before 11pm and shot the man in both legs.

A 19-year-old woman and a baby boy who were also in the house were not harmed.

The masked men escaped on foot from the property.

Local SDLP MLA John Dallat has blamed the attack on a loyalist gang.

“The idea of up to five masked men coming into a house at bedtime to mutilate the limbs of a man in the presence of a woman and child beggars belief,” he stated.

Reacting to the PSNI Chief Constable Matt Baggott’s comments to the press that the UVF are on ceasefire, he added: “The facts are there are still ‘gun-toting thugs’ loyalists who are not on ceasefire and are still acting as judge and jury in places like Coleraine.”

“These are the last people society needs to be involved in any issue relating to how people live or how they conduct themselves.

“The real question should be when will these people cease to exist and when we can build a normal society free from the evil of men bursting into homes to disable and perhaps mutilate for life the limbs of other people irrespective of who they are or what they have been accused of doing.”

Detectives have appealed for anyone with information on the incident to contact them at Coleraine police station.

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René Querin

Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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