One man has been taken to hospital after a series of shooting incidents in east Belfast tonight. It is feared the shootings are part of the ongoing loyalist feud in the city.
The PSNI said the man was injured after the shooting on Euston Street, off Woodstock road a short time ago.
Earlier, shots were fired on Beersbridge Road at 6 p.m., but nobody was injured.
A vehicle abandoned on nearby Lena Street was being examined by British army technical officers, the spokeswoman later added.
She said police were investigating a possible link between the vehicle and the shooting incident.
With tensions between rival loyalist paramilitary organisations at boiling point, one Ulster Defence Association source tonight indicated the shooting incident was the latest instalment in a bloody dispute.
"It was in the right area for it and I don't see anyone else getting the guns out," he said.
The UDA and its opponents in the Loyalist Volunteer Force have been embroiled in a festering feud since top LVF man Stephen Warnock was shot dead in Newtownards, Co Down last month.
In a retaliation attack, east Belfast UDA boss Jim Gray escaped death when he was shot in the face days later.
As the internecine war deepened, the UDA then expelled feared terror chief Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair for allegedly siding with the LVF.
Mr Gray was arrested at the weekend following searches in the area but later released without charge. The police swoop came less than 24 hours after Geoffrey Gray, 41, was shot dead in south-east Belfast.
He is understood to have had links with murdered LVF leader Billy Wright.
Additional reporting PA
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