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| Assault on teenager 'sectarian' | Assault on teenager 'sectarian' |
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| Police are treating as sectarian an incident in Ballymena in which a 17-year-old boy was assaulted. | Police are treating as sectarian an incident in Ballymena in which a 17-year-old boy was assaulted. |
| The Catholic teenager was attacked by about four to six people in the Granville Drive area of the town shortly before 0400 GMT on Sunday. | |
| He suffered injuries to his head and hands which are not thought to be life threatening. One man has been arrested. | |
| The attack happened in the same alleyway where 15-year-old Michael McIlveen was assaulted in May. | |
| He later died from his injuries. | |
| SDLP councillor Declan O'Loan said the attack showed "that the conditions exist in Ballymena for something like this to happen at any time". | |
| "These underlying conditions must be tackled. All politicians have a clear and urgent responsibility to do this," Mr O'Loan said. | |
| Sinn Fein assembly member Philip McGuigan also condemned the attack. | |
| "I have always said that political leadership, particulary from within the unionist community, is needed to bring this to an end, and that is still quite clearly lacking," he said. | |
| Police have appealed for anyone with any information to contact them. |