A 19-year-old man was shot in the leg and sustained shoulder injuries after a paramilitary-style attack in Co Down last night.
The man was with a group of friends at Stanmore Avenue in Newtownards shortly after 11 a.m. when five men pulled up in a Vauxhall Astra.
The youth started to run away, but some of the men from the car caught up with him, shot him in the calf and hit him on the shoulder with a hammer.
Police later found the car burnt out a short distance away.