Girl, 8, injured in third gun attack on same family in two years

GARDAÍ investigating a high-velocity gun attack that injured an eight- year-old girl yesterday said she was extremely lucky to be alive.

It was the third gun attack on the family within two years. In one previous attack, shots were fired into a 4x4 outside the house at the Knather, 3km from Ballyshannon, Co Donegal.

Another house owned by a member of the same family in a rural area on the other side of the town was hit by gunfire last year. Nobody was injured in either of those attacks.