07/07/2004

Couple escape injury in shooting

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man and woman escaped injury in a gun attack in Co Down yesterday.

The couple were in their Balfour Street home in Newtownards when several shots were fired at the front door of the house shortly before midnight.

Police have not yet established a motive for the shooting which left the woman in a severe state of shock.

(MB)

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