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12/10/2001
Police investigate attempted murder in west Belfast
Police in Belfast are investigating the attempted murder of a 22-year-old Catholic man in the west of the city.
The incident police say, which happened at around 3.15am on Thursday 11th October, is believed to be sectarian.
The man and a friend were walking on the Westlink between Grosvenor Road and Broadway when three men got out of a car and approached them. The victim was struck several times with a hammer and was stabbed in the arm. He suffered a broken cheekbone, needed stitches to the knife wound and multiple wounding. Police are appealing for information about a distinctive white Vauxhall Cavalier car used by the attackers. It had a full body kit; large bore exhaust and a Vauxhall logo over the front windscreen. It sped off in the direction into the loyalist Village area of south Belfast after the attack.
Meanwhile a 23-year-old man was shot several times in the leg in the Fortwilliam Park area of Belfast. A gunman went into a house at around 7.45pm on Thursday evening and shot the man. (AMcE)
The incident police say, which happened at around 3.15am on Thursday 11th October, is believed to be sectarian.
The man and a friend were walking on the Westlink between Grosvenor Road and Broadway when three men got out of a car and approached them. The victim was struck several times with a hammer and was stabbed in the arm. He suffered a broken cheekbone, needed stitches to the knife wound and multiple wounding. Police are appealing for information about a distinctive white Vauxhall Cavalier car used by the attackers. It had a full body kit; large bore exhaust and a Vauxhall logo over the front windscreen. It sped off in the direction into the loyalist Village area of south Belfast after the attack.
Meanwhile a 23-year-old man was shot several times in the leg in the Fortwilliam Park area of Belfast. A gunman went into a house at around 7.45pm on Thursday evening and shot the man. (AMcE)
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