A man was shot in his ankles and beaten with metal bars in a paramilitary-style attack in Strabane in Co Tyrone last night.
The 21-year-old victim was dragged from a house in the on the Ballycoleman estate yesterday evening when two men forced there way in.
There were eight people in the house at the time, including two young children.
The victim was brought to a grassy area in the estate where he was hit a number of times with the bars before being shot once in each ankle.