A man was attacked and beaten in a Belfast street today and then run over by his assailants as they sped from the scene.

Two men were being questioned today about the murder of a loyalist feud victim.

A 22-year-old man tonight became the third victim of a bloody feud between loyalist paramilitaries.

An attempt to murder a 41-year-old man in Northern Ireland today is believed to be the latest attack in a feud between loyalist paramilitary terror gangs, according to a senior police officer.

A man is critically ill in hospital today after he was shot in what was thought to be part of an escalating loyalist paramilitary feud.