The RUC in Derry is investigating a claim that a man from the Ballymagroarty area of the city had been given 48 hours to leave. Five masked men, one armed with a handgun and the others carrying cudgels, burst into the man's home at Barrs Lane yesterday.
When they found he was not there they told his family he had to leave Derry within 48 hours.
Later, five masked men, two armed with handguns, assaulted a 25 year old man in his home at Dunree Gardens in the Creggan area of the city. They beat him using baseball bats with nails.
The man was treated in hospital for puncture wounds to his arms and legs.