Fight to save eye of worker shot during robbery

SURGEONS were battling yesterday to save an eye of a filling station employee who was shot during a botched armed robbery.

Gardaí said the injuries could have been worse and that the 26-year-old foreign national could have been killed.

The employee was working the overnight shift at a Statoil filling station on the North Road in Finglas, north Dublin, when he was threatened by at least three men about 2.30am.