PSNI seizes rifles in child shooting investigation

Police in the North have seized a number of legally-held rifles in an attempt to identify the person who may have shot a five-year-old boy in the head last Friday.

The boy remains critically ill in hospital after being struck by a bullet from a .22 rifle while he was playing at a school in Mullinaskea, Co Fermanagh.

He is believed to have been hit by a stray bullet fired by someone shooting in nearby fields.

Up to 10 firearms have been seized from people living in the vicinity of St Patrick's primary school in an effort to trace the person who fired the shot.