Man wounded in sectarian axe attack
A nationalist man from Broadway in West Belfast is lucky to be alive after a loyalist attack in which he was struck with an axe.
The man, who was seriously injured, was walking along Broadway on his way home on Tuesday, 19 June, when he was set upon by two carloads of loyalists. Three men jumped out of the first vehicle and repeatedly hit the unsuspecting nationalist with baseball bats.
A man armed with an axe then got out of the second vehicle and struck the already wounded nationalist on the arm and head.
The man's distraught wife said her husband would have to undergo major laser surgery. ``I am just glad to be visiting my husband in hospital and not the graveyard.''
The man's arm is broken in two places and all his tendons are severed, he has severe head injuries and can't remember much about the attack. Loyalists from the nearby Village area have carried out a number of other attacks on nationalist residents of the area.
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