Boy (11) hospitalised after being shot in the arm in Tallaght

An 11-year-old boy was hospitalised after he was shot in the arm during an incident in Tallaght in the early hours of Saturday.

Gardaí were called to the scene at Belgard Road in Tallaght between 2am and 4am on February 28th where a boy suffered “non-life threatening injuries” to his arm during a shooting incident at his home.

The boy suffered wounds from a shotgun blast as a group of armed men attacked his family home, smashing the windows and damaging vehicles on the property.

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The front door of the bungalow on Belgard Road in Tallaght where an 11 year old boy was shot in the arm and later hospitalised. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin

A number of shots from a shotgun were fired at the house and it is understood the boy was injured in his left arm after a blast of pellets was fired through a window.

A Garda spokesman confirmed the boy was taken to Tallaght Hospital for treatment.

The incident occurred at about 2.30am on Saturday morning.

Gardaí said the car used by a group of men was a silver estate which was driven into the yard of the property to launch the attack.

Virtually every window in the bungalow was put through in the attack and the doors of the property were also vandalised. Caravans and a car outside the house had been vandalised in a previous incident.

It is understood the family have insisted they have been forced to flee from the house.

Detectives believe the attack is related to an ongoing feud in the Belgard area.

Gardaí have asked that anybody with information about the shooting contact Clondalkin Garda station on (01) 666 7600 or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.

Second incident

The child is the second to have been caught up in a shooting incident in the capital in as many days after a six-year-old girl narrowly avoided injury in a gun attack while she was a pillion passenger on a moped ridden by her father in the Ballyfermot area.

It is understood the girl was wearing a helmet and her father was targeted by a gunman as they travelled from the Cleggan Road to the Ballyfermot Road at about 9pm on Friday night.

The man suffered two bullet wounds to a leg and was taken in for surgery at St James’s Hospital for non life-threatening injuries

There were also reports that a bullet had grazed the helmet the girl was wearing during the shooting but she did not sustain any injuries.

A man arrested in connection with the Ballyfermot shooting was released without charge yesterday, gardaí said.

The two incidents are not linked.

With agencies