2 in hospital after attacks

Two men are in hospital after paramilitary style punishment attacks in Belfast last night

Two men are in hospital after paramilitary style punishment attacks in Belfast last night. In the loyalist Rathcoole estate on the outskirts of north Belfast, a man in his 20s was shot in the leg at about 7.15 pm. Another man was beaten with batons in the nationalist Hatfield Street area off the Omagh Road. In a separate development the loyalist paramilitary group, the Red Hand Defenders, have threatened to take action against prison officers if "the ill-treatment of loyalist prisoners at Maghaberry jail does not end within 48 hours".