O’Loan to probe men’s shooting

THE North’s police ombudswoman is investigating the shooting of two men by security forces at the weekend.

One man is critically ill in hospital with bullet wounds to the chest and leg. He was shot in Belfast city centre by a police patrol during what is thought to have been a major surveillance operation against republican bombers.

During the operation the other man was arrested and bomb disposal experts dealt with a potentially lethal fire-bomb device left in a car.