Two arrested in connection with Derry shooting

Police in the North have arrested two men in connection with the shooting of a bus driver in Derry last month.

Police in the North have arrested two men in connection with the shooting of a bus driver in Derry last month.

The driver, Danny McBrearty, was driving his coach in the Creggan estate when a gang of masked men ambushed him and beat with him hammers before shooting him in both legs.

Mr McBrearty said the gang told him they were from the IRA, who had allegedly issued at least four death threats against the bus driver in the past.

He said he was targeted because he had defended his nephew, Joseph McCloskey, when a gang arrived to attack him at his home last year.

Mr McCloskey is now living in Britain and has claimed that the IRA forced him into exile.

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