Police probe claims of gun attack
Police are investigating dissident republican claims that they carried out a gun attack on a house in Newry.
The PSNI said the incident took place in the Crannard Gardens area of the City.
A police spokesman said that damage was caused to an unoccupied house in the area sometime overnight from Sunday to Monday.
“The outer pane of glass in a double glazed window in the property was cracked during the incident. Police are investigating claims that this damage was caused by shots being fired,” police said.
SDLP MLA for Newry and Armagh Dominic Bradley said of the incident that he was condemning threats “believed to be issued by the South Down Command of Continuity Irish Republican Army against a certain section of the community”.
The MLA said the threats had been sent by recorded voicemail message to his constituency office.
“No group has the right to take the law into their own hands and use bombs and bullets – regardless of the seriousness of the alleged crimes,” he said. The group claimed to have carried out a gun attack in Newry and pipe bomb attacks in Bessbrook and Newry in connection with a gang dealing heroin.
