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03/08/2001
Teenagers injured in overnight assaults
The province has seen a series of overnight assaults during which two teenagers were attacked and beaten in two separate incidents.
In Belfast, a 19 year old man, who was walking home after collecting a prescription from a chemists on the Newtownards Road, was set upon by a gang of five men who held him down and subjected him to a violent assault during which he was kicked and beaten. The men, thought to be loyalists, then ran off. The teenager was taken to hospital where he was detained for several hours before being released.
In another overnight incident, a 17-year-old youth has been run over and shot in Killough, County Down. Police are appealing for witnesses to the attack, during which the teenager, walking along Fisherman’s Road, was hit by a motorbike upon which two people were travelling, and then shot in both feet. The assailants then left in the direction of St John’s Point. (CL)
In Belfast, a 19 year old man, who was walking home after collecting a prescription from a chemists on the Newtownards Road, was set upon by a gang of five men who held him down and subjected him to a violent assault during which he was kicked and beaten. The men, thought to be loyalists, then ran off. The teenager was taken to hospital where he was detained for several hours before being released.
In another overnight incident, a 17-year-old youth has been run over and shot in Killough, County Down. Police are appealing for witnesses to the attack, during which the teenager, walking along Fisherman’s Road, was hit by a motorbike upon which two people were travelling, and then shot in both feet. The assailants then left in the direction of St John’s Point. (CL)
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