A 33-year-old man is recovering in hospital after being wounded in a gun attack in a Loyalist area of Portadown. Police said that the man was parking his car outside a house on the Brownstown Estate last night when a gunman fired at him. He was wounded in the arm, side and hand, but his condition is said not to be life threatening. The victim believes he was targeted because his brother was on a UVF hit list.
It is believed the attack was part of a continuing feud between the rival paramilitary groups, the UVF and the LVF. It followed the killing of two young Portadown men whose bodies were found dumped on a border road last weekend. The DUP Assembly member for the area, Mervyn Carrick, called for a halt to the violence.
