'Wild West' fear as motorbike shooting follows murder

An Ulster Unionist tonight claimed east Belfast was becoming “the Wild West” after a second gun attack linked to feuding among rival loyalist factions left a teenager wounded.

An Ulster Unionist tonight claimed east Belfast was becoming “the Wild West” after a second gun attack linked to feuding among rival loyalist factions left a teenager wounded.

The 19-year-old was getting into a car in the Ravenscroft Avenue area of east Belfast when two men on a motorbike blasted at him with a shotgun.

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