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08/10/2002
Man shot and seriously wounded in east Belfast loyalist feud
A 22-year-old man was shot and seriously wounded in the second of two gun attacks which occurred within a few hours of each other in east Belfast last night.
The man was shot in the head as he sat in his car on the Woodstock Road area at around 9pm on Monday evening.
He was rushed to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast and is understood to be in a serious condition following emergency surgery.
Assistant Chief Constable Alan McQuillan said he believed that the incident was related to the ongoing feud between two rival paramilitary groups – the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) in the east of the city.
Earlier on Monday evening, in what was described by sources as a murder attempt by loyalists, a man was shot at as he walked with a second man along the Beersbridge Road shortly before 6pm. The gunman made his escape in a waiting car. There are no reports of any injuries.
A car, thought to have been used in the shooting, was later found in Lena Street off Ravenscroft Avenue, not far from the scene.
Within the past few weeks the feud has so far seen the murder of 41-year-old Geoffrey Thomas Gray on Friday October 4, the shooting and wounding of senior UDA member Jim Gray, and the murder of LVF member Stephen Warnock in Newtownards last month.
(SP)
The man was shot in the head as he sat in his car on the Woodstock Road area at around 9pm on Monday evening.
He was rushed to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast and is understood to be in a serious condition following emergency surgery.
Assistant Chief Constable Alan McQuillan said he believed that the incident was related to the ongoing feud between two rival paramilitary groups – the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) in the east of the city.
Earlier on Monday evening, in what was described by sources as a murder attempt by loyalists, a man was shot at as he walked with a second man along the Beersbridge Road shortly before 6pm. The gunman made his escape in a waiting car. There are no reports of any injuries.
A car, thought to have been used in the shooting, was later found in Lena Street off Ravenscroft Avenue, not far from the scene.
Within the past few weeks the feud has so far seen the murder of 41-year-old Geoffrey Thomas Gray on Friday October 4, the shooting and wounding of senior UDA member Jim Gray, and the murder of LVF member Stephen Warnock in Newtownards last month.
(SP)
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