A man was taken to hospital in Derry last night with gunshot wounds to his knees.
The paramilitary-style attack on the man (50) took place at a house in Spittal Hill, Coleraine, at 11p.m.
In a separate incident, a man (45) was found on Sheetrim Road in Cullyhanna by fire crews who were called out to a burning car at 10 a.m.
The victim had been beaten with clubs studded with nails, in what the PSNI described as a "barbaric" attack. He suffered two broken arms and legs and multiple injuries to his face and body.
The man, who was driving a silver-coloured car, had dropped his children off at Annaghmore Primary School in the Kiltybane area, when he was abducted in a second car. He remained in critical condition in the Royal Hospital in Belfast.
The PSNI said they were treating the attack as attempted murder.
SDLP assembly member for East Derry, Mr John Dallat, has called on the police to "round up all the loose guns in Coleraine" following the shooting.
Mr Dallat said: "Irrespective of the target, there is no excuse, no justification and no support in the community for this sort of violence."
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