A boy (5) is recovering in hospital today after being shot in the leg in Limerick in a feud-related incident.
The child was standing with a group of people outside a house in O'Malley Park in Limerick's Southill area when a gunman opened fire shortly after 7.30pm yesterday evening, hitting him once in the upper leg.
He was rushed to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital. His condition was described this afternoon as stable.
The house, which is owned by a relative of the boy, has been targeted before in an ongoing feud. It is understood that the boy was not deliberately singled out.
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The incident was the third shooting in the southside of Limerick city last weekend.