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05/03/2007
Priest recovering after shooting in Johannesburg
A Belfast priest who was shot in an attack in South Africa is recovering in hospital.
Father Kieran Creagh, 44 was shot by robbers at the Aids hospice he set up in Johannesburg last week.
He underwent an operation on Friday to remove a bullet from his lung, and his brother Liam told reporters he has now been taken off his ventilator.
He told BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence his brother had been shot in the arm and chest.
The man’s father as well as his brother Paul are at his hospital bedside and have kept the family in Belfast informed of his progress.
Father Creagh has spent the last decade working with Aids sufferers and the Leratong hospice he founded was opened in 2004.
(JM/SP)
Father Kieran Creagh, 44 was shot by robbers at the Aids hospice he set up in Johannesburg last week.
He underwent an operation on Friday to remove a bullet from his lung, and his brother Liam told reporters he has now been taken off his ventilator.
He told BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence his brother had been shot in the arm and chest.
The man’s father as well as his brother Paul are at his hospital bedside and have kept the family in Belfast informed of his progress.
Father Creagh has spent the last decade working with Aids sufferers and the Leratong hospice he founded was opened in 2004.
(JM/SP)
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