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08/06/2010
Three Held Over Newry Shooting Probe
The police in the North are now questioning three men after a shot assistant was shot in the stomach during a failed armed robbery attempt in Newry at the weekend.
It happened at about 11.35pm on Sunday when a man armed with a handgun entered a gaming arcade at Upper Water Street in the border city.
Having demanded cash from a woman working in the shop he then fled empty-handed but not before shooting her in the stomach.
The woman was taken to hospital with injuries which are today being described as serious, but not life-threatening.
It emerged this morning that the three men had been detained by detectives investigating the shock incident when the victim, who is in her 40s, suffered the gunshot wounds.
See: Shop Worker Shot
(BMcC/GK)
It happened at about 11.35pm on Sunday when a man armed with a handgun entered a gaming arcade at Upper Water Street in the border city.
Having demanded cash from a woman working in the shop he then fled empty-handed but not before shooting her in the stomach.
The woman was taken to hospital with injuries which are today being described as serious, but not life-threatening.
It emerged this morning that the three men had been detained by detectives investigating the shock incident when the victim, who is in her 40s, suffered the gunshot wounds.
See: Shop Worker Shot
(BMcC/GK)
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