Teenager shot in paramilitary-style attack

A 14-year-old boy was shot in a paramilitary-style attack in Belfast early today.

The city’s Lord Mayor, Martin Morgan, angrily condemned those responsible as “child abusers”.

The teenager was taken to hospital with a gunshot wound to the left leg after he was found dumped at the rear of Fianna House in North Queen Street.

Police have appealed for anyone with information about the shooting, believed to have been carried out by republican paramilitaries, to contact them.

The SDLP Lord Mayor said those responsible had reached “a new level of depravity, a new level of sickness”.

Mr Morgan added: “The community has to reject these people. They are nothing better than child abusers.”