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| Belfast shooting, Oldpark Road: Man is taken to hospital | Belfast shooting, Oldpark Road: Man is taken to hospital |
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| A man has been injured in a shooting in north Belfast. | A man has been injured in a shooting in north Belfast. |
| Police said it happened at a fast food outlet on the Oldpark Road at about 17:40 GMT. | Police said it happened at a fast food outlet on the Oldpark Road at about 17:40 GMT. |
| The man has been taken to hospital but his condition is not known. | The man has been taken to hospital but his condition is not known. |
| Police are at the scene and have closed the Oldpark Road. Diversions are in place. | Police are at the scene and have closed the Oldpark Road. Diversions are in place. |
| 'Head wound' | |
| A witness told BBC NI reporter Martin Cassidy that she heard the shot. | A witness told BBC NI reporter Martin Cassidy that she heard the shot. |
| She said she saw the victim slumped in the takeaway restaurant and said he appeared to have a head wound. | |
| SDLP North Belfast MLA Alban Maginness described the shooting as a "savage act of violence". | |
| "This kind of criminality has no place in modern society and is completely at odds with the values held by the North Belfast community," he said. |