BREAKING: A police officer has been shot in Omagh in Northern Ireland, security sources have told Sky News 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
The officer has been taken to hospital after being shot in Killyclogher Road in the County Tyrone town.
The shooting took place in front of young people at a football coaching session, according Ulster Unionist Party MLA Tom Elliott.Two sources have told Reuters the officer was shot a"number of times" while other reports suggest he was off-duty at the time. The officers has been shot on the same road where dissident republicans carried out the Omagh bombing on 15 August 1998.Advertisement
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