A 25-year-old man remained in intensive care tonight after being shot in Northern Ireland.
The man underwent emergency surgery after being shot three times in an attack in north Belfast which police are treating as attempted murder.
He was sitting in a car with two friends in Brookfield Place in the republican Ardoyne area of the city at around 9.30pm last night when three or four masked men appeared.
One opened fire through the driver’s window, hitting the man in the abdomen and both legs.
A spokesman for Belfast’s Mater Hospital said the man’s condition, which had been critical, had improved during the day and was now stable.
Detectives said they have not yet established a motive for the attack.
One of the other men in the car suffered a graze wound to his leg while the other was unhurt.