A Catholic teenager has been attacked and beaten up by a loyalist gang in Coleraine, Co Derry, police said today.
A PSNI spokeswoman said the attack on the 17-year-old was being treated as a sectarian hate crime.
The victim was approached, assaulted and verbally abused in a carpark by group of five young men, described as wearing hoodies, in the town’s Long Commons area yesterday afternoon.
The victim was not understood to have suffered serious life-threatening injuries.
Police appealed for anyone who witnessed the attack to contact them.
Tensions have continued to run high in Coleraine in the wake of the murder by a loyalist mob of Catholic community worker Kevin McDaid in May. Ten people have so far been charged in connection with his killing, six with murder.
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