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08/11/2007
Republicans Shoot Derry Police Officer
An off-duty police officer who was seriously injured in a shooting in Londonderry this morning has managed to drive himself from the scene.
The incident happened at about 8.30am at Bishop Street in the city. The officer was leaving one of his children off at school when the shooting occurred.
Local reports say that a single shot was fired at the driver's side window by what is believed to have been a shotgun.
The 43-year-old probationary officer is now in a stable condition in hospital with injuries that are described as not life-threatening.
It is understood he is a Derry-born Catholic who joined the PSNI two years ago. The attack has been blamed on dissident republicans.
With a growing number of Catholics joining the PSNI, senior officers said they feared dissident republicans opposed to the peace process would carry out such an incident.
The officer was shot at the Lumen Christi Grammar School in Bishop Street as he was dropping one of his children off at the school.
He was hit as he pulled up in his car and although badly wounded, he managed to drive off and reach Strand Road police station where he was given immediate first aid treatment.
Staff at Lumen Christi College said none of their pupils or other parents were affected by the shooting.
A BMW car believed to have been used in the attack was later found burned out on the nationalist Creggan Estate.
Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern, said the attack showed a particularly vicious disregard for the lives of children and their parents.
Mr Ahern said the perpetrators represented no-one, and had no agenda except destruction and a return to conflict.
NIO Security Minister Paul Goggins confirmed that the officer "was able to drive on from the incident and go to the police station".
He said the officer is now in Altnagelvin Hospital where his condition is described as serious, but stable.
Deputy First Minister for Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, said of the attack: "The war is over and it's time these people woke up to that reality. They are attempting to plunge our society back into conflict."
(BMcC)
The incident happened at about 8.30am at Bishop Street in the city. The officer was leaving one of his children off at school when the shooting occurred.
Local reports say that a single shot was fired at the driver's side window by what is believed to have been a shotgun.
The 43-year-old probationary officer is now in a stable condition in hospital with injuries that are described as not life-threatening.
It is understood he is a Derry-born Catholic who joined the PSNI two years ago. The attack has been blamed on dissident republicans.
With a growing number of Catholics joining the PSNI, senior officers said they feared dissident republicans opposed to the peace process would carry out such an incident.
The officer was shot at the Lumen Christi Grammar School in Bishop Street as he was dropping one of his children off at the school.
He was hit as he pulled up in his car and although badly wounded, he managed to drive off and reach Strand Road police station where he was given immediate first aid treatment.
Staff at Lumen Christi College said none of their pupils or other parents were affected by the shooting.
A BMW car believed to have been used in the attack was later found burned out on the nationalist Creggan Estate.
Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern, said the attack showed a particularly vicious disregard for the lives of children and their parents.
Mr Ahern said the perpetrators represented no-one, and had no agenda except destruction and a return to conflict.
NIO Security Minister Paul Goggins confirmed that the officer "was able to drive on from the incident and go to the police station".
He said the officer is now in Altnagelvin Hospital where his condition is described as serious, but stable.
Deputy First Minister for Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, said of the attack: "The war is over and it's time these people woke up to that reality. They are attempting to plunge our society back into conflict."
(BMcC)
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