Garda injured in ‘deplorable’ gun attack

THREE gardaí narrowly missed being shot after bullets were fired at a Dublin house in an attack described as “deplorable” by the Garda Commissioner.

Garda injured  in ‘deplorable’ gun attack

The shooting took place in the Greenfort Close estate in Clondalkin at 1.15am yesterday, when gardaí, responding to a call at a house, were forced to take cover when a man discharged a handgun into the house.

One of them, understood to be a sergeant, received injuries to his hands and body from flying glass after five shots were fired into the hallway where the gardaí were standing talking to the resident of the house.

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