RUC investigate shooting and beating incidents

The RUC is investigating three violent incidents that happened overnight.

The RUC is investigating three violent incidents that happened overnight.

In Craigavon, Co Armagh, a number of shots were fired at a house in the Westacres area of the town.

Nobody was injured in the attack, which happened at around 12.20 a.m.

Shortly after midnight seven or eight masked men burst into a house at Donegore Drive in Antrim. They were armed with a handgun, a machete and knives.

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There were seven people in the house at the time and all were assaulted.

Three people were badly injured: an 18-year-old man and a man and woman in their 30s.

A spokeswoman for the RUC told ireland.comthat they wounds they received required stitching.

In Maralin Ave in Lisburn, Co Antrim, four masked men burst into a flat just before 11 last night.

One occupant, a male, was taken out to a stairs and beaten with wooden batons. He suffered bruising to the arms, legs and body.

Three others in the flat at the time were unharmed.

Pádraig Collins

Pádraig Collins

Pádraig Collins a contributor to The Irish Times based in Sydney