A man is critically ill in hospital after what is believed to be the latest attack in the ongoing loyalist feud.
Four masked men, one armed with a handgun, shot the 23-year-old man after entering his home at Dunlusk Gardens, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim. The incident happened at around 11.15 p.m.
The man was taken to hospital with a thigh injury and wounds consistent with being beaten about the head. His condition is critical.
The victim's partner, who was also in the house at the time, was not injured but the couple's young child, who was playing nearby, saw the gunmen run off across wasteland. An arrest was made shortly afterwards.
Police later confirmed they were investigating the shooting as part of the feud within the loyalist Ulster Defence Association (UDA).
Meanwhile, police mounted a major security operation in Belfast this morning for the funeral of the latest victim in the feud.
Roadblocks were set up around the Donegall Road area and vehicles were stopped and searched while a private funeral service took place in the side street home of the victim's parents.
UDA man Roy Green (32) was shot dead outside a bar in South Belfast's Ormeau Road last Thursday. The UDA leadership said he'd been killed for acting as a double agent in their feud with terror chief Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair.
There was a security alert around Adair's West Belfast home today, and British army bomb experts took away the remains of an object which caused a small explosion in the back yard during the morning.
Police later confirmed the item was a blast bomb, which exploded at 6.30 a.m. A number of items were taken away for technical examination.
- A 28 year-old man escaped through an upstairs bedroom window when a masked gang of four, one armed with a handgun, the others with an iron bar, a bat and an unspecified implement, broke into his home at Glenburn Crescent, on the Ballysally estate in Coleraine, Co Derry.
The occupant's partner and two young children were left in the house while the intruders searched the premises. The man's partner was questioned by the intruders before they left. No-one was hurt in the incident.