|
|
Front Page | |
| |
UK | |
| |
World | |
| |
Business | |
| |
Sci/Tech | |
| |
Sport | |
| |
Despatches | |
| |
World Summary 
| |
| |
On Air | |
| |
| |
| |
Talking Point | |
| |
Feedback | |
| |
Text Only | |
| |
Help | |
| |
Site Map | |
| |
Tuesday, January 6, 1998 Published at 21:32 GMT
UK
Gun attack in Belfast
A man has been shot in gun attack at a pub in south Belfast.
Police said the victim was hit in the chest when shots were fired at The Meadows Tavern on
the city's Boucher Road.
He was rushed to the nearby Royal Victoria Hospital. His condition is not known.
The bar is in the middle of one of the city's main industrial estates beside a
road which divides south and west Belfast.
It is not yet known if it was a sectarian attack.
The shooting comes after Protestant inmates at the Maze prison near Belfast again refused to give their backing to the Northern Ireland peace process.
Sectarian violence returned to Northern Ireland following the murder of loyalist paramilitary leader Billy Wright inside the Maze prison just after Christmas.
Since then, retaliatory attacks have left two people dead.
|
|
|
| Relevant Stories 06 Jan 98 | UK Shadow over loyalist ceasefire 05 Jan 98 | UK Prisoners in charge at the Maze 05 Jan 98 | UK Truce will hold, says Mowlam 02 Jan 98 | UK Northern Ireland crisis meetings 31 Dec 97 | UK Mowlam considers Maze murder inquiry 28 Dec 97 | UK Appeals for calm after loyalist murder |
||
| ||
| ||
|
||
| Internet Links Northern Ireland Office The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. |
||
| ||
| ||
|
||