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08/11/2004
Police treat teenager's stabbing as attempted murder
Police are treating the stabbing of a 14-year-old boy at the weekend as attempted murder.
The victim was walking through Laburnum playing fields in east Belfast early on Saturday when he was set upon by a number of men and stabbed several times before escaping from his attackers.
Found a short time later by police at the nearby Picardy Avenue, the teenager was rushed to hospital where he underwent emergency surgery for a serious stab wound to the abdomen.
He remains in a critical condition following surgery.
Police have appealed for anyone who saw anything suspicious in the area at about 5am on Saturday to contact them.
Elsewhere, two people have been arrested after a man was struck with a baseball bat in Londonderry at the weekend.
The man was walking down Carlisle Road when people in a car drove past him shouting before striking him in the back with what is thought to have been a baseball bat.
Two men arrested in connection with the incident have since been release on bail.
(MB)
The victim was walking through Laburnum playing fields in east Belfast early on Saturday when he was set upon by a number of men and stabbed several times before escaping from his attackers.
Found a short time later by police at the nearby Picardy Avenue, the teenager was rushed to hospital where he underwent emergency surgery for a serious stab wound to the abdomen.
He remains in a critical condition following surgery.
Police have appealed for anyone who saw anything suspicious in the area at about 5am on Saturday to contact them.
Elsewhere, two people have been arrested after a man was struck with a baseball bat in Londonderry at the weekend.
The man was walking down Carlisle Road when people in a car drove past him shouting before striking him in the back with what is thought to have been a baseball bat.
Two men arrested in connection with the incident have since been release on bail.
(MB)
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