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Five hurt in three shooting incidents in Dublin

17/07/2006 - 08:20:56
Five people are recovering this morning after they were injured in three separate shooting incidents in Dublin.

Two of the victims were shot when the pillion passenger on a motorcycle opened fire at the occupants of a car stopped in traffic on the Old Bawn Road in Tallaght just after 6.30pm yesterday evening.

Both were taken to hospital, but one was discharged a short time later.

Elsewhere, a 17-year-old girl is also in hospital after she sustained pellet wounds to her leg during another shooting at Green Fort Crescent in Clondalkin just after midnight.

In Finglas, meanwhile, a man and a woman were both taken to hospital after they were shot at a house on Finglas Wood Road at around 7.30am today.

None of the injuries sustained in the three shootings is believed to be life-threatening.

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