Man shot after ‘masked men armed with baseball bats enter apartment’
A man was shot in the right knee and hand and suffered injuries to his head in a village on the northern coast of Northern Ireland.
The victim was gunned down on August 2 at an apartment on Main Street in Bushmills, known for the Old Bushmills Distillery nearby that produces whiskey.
At around 11:50pm, a ‘number of masked men’ entered the flat armed with baseball bats, leaving the victim with a ‘head wound’ after the incident.
He was taken to hospital for his injuries, regionahttps://www.psni.police.uk/latest-news/detectives-investigate-shooting-incident-following-serious-assaultl police said the following day.
Yesterday evening detectives said they had arrested two men aged 38 and 36 under the terrorism act in connection to a ‘serious assault and shooting’.
‘Detectives investigating a report of a serious assault and shooting at an apartment in the Main Street area of Bushmills on Wednesday evening, 2nd August, have made two arrests,’ Police Causeway Coast and Glens said.
The suspects were taken to a police station in Belfast, the capital.
PSNI Detective Inspector Hanbidge said: ‘Two men, aged 38 and 36, were arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 this morning, Sunday 6th August in the Bushmills area.
‘They have been taken to the Serious Crime Suite at Musgrave Police Station to be questioned.
‘The investigation is continuing and the violence inflicted on this man will leave physical and mental scars and trauma that may never heal. No good comes from this – ever.’
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