A 15-year-old boy has been severely beaten by five masked men in an attack in north Belfast. He was dragged into an alleyway off the loyalist Shore Road. Meanwhile, a man in his 20s suffered a stab wound to his chest and lacerations to his face when he was attacked by a group of men in the University Road area of Belfast at around 3 a.m. yesterday.
Two men, aged 18 and 22, also received stab wounds during a late-night incident in Drumcairn Road, Armagh.
