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Belfast shooting, Oldpark Road: Man is taken to hospital Belfast shooting, Oldpark Road: Man is critically ill
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A man has been injured in a shooting in north Belfast. A man who was shot in the head in north Belfast is in a critical condition in hospital, police have said.
Police said it happened at a fast food outlet on the Oldpark Road at about 17:40 GMT. The attack took place 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. Police said a vehicle matching the description of the suspected getaway car has been found on fire a short distance away.
Police are at the scene and have closed the Oldpark Road. Diversions are in place. SDLP North Belfast MLA Alban Maginness said witnesses had told him two gunmen were involved in the attack.
'Head wound' Insp James Murphy has appealed for anyone with information about the attack to contact police.
A witness told BBC NI reporter Martin Cassidy that she heard the shot. "A report was made to police at around 5.40pm that a man had received a suspected gunshot wound to his head in the vicinity of the fast food takeaway.
She said she saw the victim slumped in the takeaway restaurant and said he appeared to have a head wound. "A blue coloured Vauxhall Astra estate car was seen to make off from the scene and a car matching this description was found on fire a short time later nearby in Torrens Gardens," the officer said.
SDLP North Belfast MLA Alban Maginness described the shooting as a "savage act of violence". 'Very frightening'
"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. Earlier, a witness told a BBC NI reporter at the scene that she heard the shot.
She said she saw the victim slumped in the takeaway restaurant and that he appeared to have a head wound.
Mr Maginnes visited the scene shortly after the attack and described the shooting as a "very frightening" incident.
"It has shocked people in the neighbourhood. It's a quiet, residential neighbourhood and all of us had thought that this type of incident had been put to rest"
Police remain at the scene and have closed the Oldpark Road.
Diversions are in place.