Four shot in North attacks

Four men have been shot in separate paramilitary-style attacks in the North. In the first incident, a man believed to be in his 20s was shot in the legs in the loyalist Donegall Road area of south Belfast at around 7.30 p.m. Two 18-year-olds suffering gunshot wounds to the legs were admitted to hospital in Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, shortly after 8.30 pm. At around 9 p.m. a man also believed to be in his 20s sustained gunshot wounds to his legs on the nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown, Co Armagh.