A 36-year-old man was shot in each leg in a paramilitary-style "punishment" attack in the Rathcoole estate outside Belfast. An ambulance crew found him in the Camross Park area on Saturday morning.
Meanwhile, the RUC has uncovered an arms cache in a grave in Strabane, Co Tyrone. Police were called to Melmount Cemetery on Saturday to examine an object and found a double-barrelled sawn-off shotgun, a revolver and ammunition in piping buried in a grave.
Fifteen families had to evacuate their homes yesterday when an explosive device was found in a car near a Church of Ireland church in Newtownabbey. It was made safe by security forces after an operation lasting several hours. In another incident at Carnmoney, Co Antrim, a bomb alert disrupted a Catholic blessing of the graves ceremony. It was later found to be a hoax.
The fire service in Belfast has made a public appeal for an end to attacks on its crews after an engine was rammed and stoned in the west of the city. As firemen were putting out a fire in the Lower Falls Road area on Saturday, a car containing three teenagers reversed into their fire engine.
Around 20 children aged from eight to 10 pelted the fire engine with stones as it returned from the call to its base at Springfield Road Fire Station. Its windscreen and a window were smashed.