Taxi stoning puts boy, 5, in hospital
A five-year-old boy was being treated for a serious eye injury today after the taxi he was travelling in was stoned by youths in Belfast last night.
The boy and his mother were travelling in a taxi close to St George’s Market in the south of the city when the vehicle was attacked.
A gang of youths from the Markets housing estate started throwing stones at the car at around 9.45pm.
One of the stones smashed a window of the passing taxi and hit the boy in the face.
He is receiving treatment in hospital.
