01/05/2003

Teenager shot in paramilitary-style attack

A teenager has been shot in a paramilitary style attack in Newtownards.

The 15-year-old youth was asleep in his house in the Westwinds estate when around five masked men dragged him from his house and shot him in the garden.

He is currently being treated in hospital with gunshot wounds to his legs.

Elsewhere, a woman has been repeatedly stabbed at her house in Strabane.

The woman was attacked after answering the front door of her Springhill Park home at around 3.30am on Thursday morning.

The woman is currently being treated in Altnagelvin Hospital for a puncture wound to her lung.

One person has been arrested in connection to the attack.

Meanwhile, a man is due in court today charged with a number of offences including kidnapping, assault with intent to rape and indecent assault on a young woman.

It is understood to relate to the abduction of a young woman from Sion Mills last weekend.

(MB)

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