A MAN to undergo emergency surgery after he was the victim of a dissident republican ‘punishment attack’ in Derry this evening.
It is understood the man was shot in the legs.
The shooting happened at a new housing development near St Peter’s school in McGowna Park in the Creggan area,
Police, first responder paramedics and ambulance crews attended the scene of the shooting.
The victim has been taken to the accident and emergency unit at Altnagelvin Area Hospital.
There are no details on his condition as yet.
The shooting comes just three days after taxi driver Michael McGibbon died following a punishment shooting in Belfast.
Dissident republican gunmen shot him three times in the legs – and severed a main artery with a bullet wound which led him to bleed to death.
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