01/04/2003

Man in hospital after Co Down assault

A man in his 50s is being treated in hospital today following an attack at his home in Co Down last night.

At around midnight, a gang of three or four masked men burst into the house on the Armagh Road in Newry. Two of the men were armed with baseball bats and a third had a knife.

While the victim's son, who is in his 20s, managed to escape from the house, his father was struck on the head with a bat and sustained a stab wound to his side.

Police have appealed for anyone with information to come forward.

(GMcG)

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