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Belfast shooting leaves man in critical condition Belfast police escape bomb attack hours after shooting
(about 4 hours later)
A man is in a critical condition after being shot in west Belfast. The Police Service of Northern Ireland has confirmed that its officers escaped a pipe bomb attack in north Belfast early on Tuesday.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland revealed on Tuesday that the victim was hit in the chest during a shooting at a house in Oranmore Street in the nationalist Clonard area around 10pm on Monday. The explosion outside the Holy Cross Church on the Crumlin Road came just hours after a man was shot in the chest and stomach in the west of the city.
The man, who is in his 30s, was taken to a nearby hospital to be treated for his injuries. Homes were evacuated after the explosive device was hurled at a passing armoured police patrol vehicle. Early morning mass at the Catholic church was postponed because of the ensuing security operation.
PSNI officer Insp Ian Lockyear said: “Inquiries are ingoing and police are appealing for witnesses.” The PSNI said no officers were injured in the blast which is being blamed on republican dissidents. The road had reopened by early afternoon after army bomb disposal officers cleared the area.
More details soon... Fr Gary Donegan, the rector of the church, condemned those behind the explosion.
“I don’t know what their motive is behind any of this kind of behaviour,” he said.
At around 10pm on Monday a man in his 30s was shot in the chest and the stomach in the Clonard area of west Belfast. The victim was hit several times at a house in Oranmore Street in the nationalist district.
The man is said to be in a critical condition at the nearby Belfast Royal Victoria hospital.
SDLP and West Belfast assembly member Alex Attwood condemned the shooting as “barbaric and vicious”.
“The people of west Belfast don’t want this. They don’t want guns on our streets or people put in hospital by those taking the law into their own hands. We will not be dragged back to that.”