Four men are recovering in hospital after a multiple "punishment" attack in west Belfast. They were beaten with baseball bats by several masked men who burst into their flat in Lenadoon on Wednesday night. Each man was taken to a separate room, bound and gagged, then questioned and beaten. They all suffered serious bruising.
Shortly afterwards, a 44 year old man was beaten with baseball bats by masked men who forced their way into his home in the loyalist Rathcoole estate in north Belfast.