19/09/2006

Man arrested over teenager shooting

A 47-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an incident at the weekend in which a teenager was shot.

The arrest is understood to be connected to the shooting of 18-year-old Conor Welding, whose leg had to be amputated after he was approached and shot by two men in the Ard Na Va area of the Falls Road in west Belfast in the early hours of Saturday morning.

This is the second person to be arrested in connection with the shooting.

(EF/KMcA)

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