Police are investigating a reported gun attack on a former republican prisoner in Ballycastle, Co Antrim.
The man was driving home at 10.30 p.m. when a shot was fired at his van. He escaped injury.
A Police Service of Northern Ireland spokesman said an examination of the van had revealed evidence of a bullet hole.
Sinn Féin said the man who was attacked was a fomer republican prisoner, and the shooting had all the signs of a loyalist sectarian murder attempt.
Mr Phillip McGuigan, a North Antrim councillor, said the man had been warned three times in recent weeks by police, who visited to tell him he was being targeted.
Meanwhile an 18-year-old man was shot in both legs in Belfast last night.
He was attacked in the Mount Vernon area at around 11.30 pm and is now recovering in hospital.
