A 25-YEAR-OLD man was fighting for his life in hospital yesterday after being gunned down in Northern Ireland.
handbags mThe man, who is in a critical condition, was shot three times in an attack in north Belfast that police are treating as attempted murder.
He was sitting in a car with two friends in Brookfield Place in the republican Ardoyne area around 9.30pm on Friday night when three or four masked men appeared.
One opened fire through the driver's window, hitting the man in the abdomen and both legs.
Detectives said they have not yet established a motive for the attack.
The victim underwent emergency surgery overnight.
One of the other men in the car sustained a graze wound to his leg while the other was uninjured.
Sinn Fein junior minister at Stormont and north Belfast MLA Gerry Kelly said the attackers had set out to kill.
"I want to condemn this incident outright, those responsible for this attack are not representative of this community in any way, they have no support and they offer our people nothing but further distress in the time ahead," he said.
"This young man has been left critically injured and it is clear that this was an attempt to take this young person's life.
"The people of Ardoyne and wider north Belfast have suffered enough, particularly our young people." People in Northern Ireland continue to be subject to paramilitary-style 'punishment' attacks despite the end of the Troubles.
However, SDLP north Belfast MLA Alban Maginness questioned whether this was such an incident as the victim's wounds were not confined to the arms and legs.
"This is a serious development because it seems to have been more than a punishment attack as the man was shot in the abdomen," he said.
"The people of Ardoyne were at the sharp end of the Troubles for decades and they suffered greatly.
"We have many difficult problems to deal with in the area, but the one thing we can be absolutely sure of is that those who carry out these shootings have no solutions to offer.
"They don't want solutions, they want to keep communities in turmoil Epi leather so they can exercise control.
"They can only harm the community and they must be isolated in the community."
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