Man 'executed' in Newry may have been shot as part of 'cross-border drugs feud'

The shooting happened in the residential Ardcarn Park area soon after 6pm

A tent erected next to a car at the scene of a fatal shooting in the Ardcarn Park area of Newry on Thursday evening (Liam McBurney/PA)

A man shot repeatedly in Newry may have been murdered as part of cross-border criminal gang drugs feud, police said.

A PSNI superintendent described Thursday’s killing in Co Down as “brutal and senseless”.