PSNI officer injured after being shot in car at traffic lights

A PSNI officer was shot in the chest in Dungannon, Co Tyrone, yesterday in the second attack of its kind in the North in less than a week.

The officer was shot in his car as he sat at traffic lights outside St Patrick’s Church in the town at about 5.45pm and dissident republicans have again been blamed for this latest atrocity.

Last week, in Derry, a 43-year-old Catholic probationary officer, who joined the PSNI less than two years’ ago, was shot by the RIRA minutes after he had left his 15-year-old son at Lumen Christi College in Bishop Street. He sustained shotgun pellet injuries to his upper body which were not life threatening.