Second punishment shooting inside 24 hours

A 41-year-old man was shot in the leg today, in the second apparent paramilitary-style attack in Northern Ireland in less than 24 hours, police said.

The man was wounded in the left leg in the shooting in Carrickfergus, CoAntrim, shortly before 2pm, an RUC spokesman said.

The attack was carried out on Oakfield Drive in the town’s Glenfield estate.

It followed a similar shooting in the loyalist Rathcoole estate on the northern outskirts of Belfast on Friday night.

The 32-year-old victim was shot once in his right leg in an alleyway between Camross Park and Rathmore Drive.