Two people have been injured and six children narrowly avoided being hurt in three separate violent incidents in Co Antrim overnight.
A family escaped injury in a gun attack in Crumlin at around 1 a.m. when the caravan they were staying in was fired upon.
Two adults and six children were thought to be in the home at the time. A vehicle beside the caravan was damaged in the attack in which one round from a shotgun was discharged.
Earlier, a 26 year-old was shot in the leg in Ballymena.
The man was forced into a car at around where he was shot in a paramilitary-style shooting, shortly after 8 p.m.
It is understood the shooting is a loyalist punishment attack in a town notorious for drug feuds. A sectarian motive is thought unlikely.
The man is recovering in hospital.
A short time later, a 23-year-old man was beaten with hammers and a baseball bat at his home in Carrickfergus.
Three masked men broke into the man’s flat in Castlemara at around 9 p.m. last night. The man is being treated in hopsital for his injuries.