Man beaten to death by group

A MURDER investigation was launched yesterday after a man was beaten to death.

Police said a young man was attacked in the early hours at the rear of a house at Leamount Park in the Cline Road area in Banbridge, Co Down, in Northern Ireland.

A number of people have been arrested. A group of three or four men and two women are believed to have carried out the attack on the 29-year-old, and may have used spades.