Police are searching for two suspects after shooting during football coaching session
“The officer is in a critical but stable condition in hospital. My thoughts are with him, his family and his colleagues.The senior officer was shot at Youth Sport Omagh while football coaching was going on at the grounds. Initial indications are police are searching for two suspects who were dressed in black.“One man, a serving police officer, has been taken to hospital for treatment after being injured in a shooting incident at a sports complex just before 8pm this evening,” they said.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in a statement said he had heard the “terrible news from Omagh about the shooting of an off duty PSNI officer tonight”. British prime minister Rishi Sunak said he was appalled by the “disgraceful shooting of an off-duty police officer in Omagh”. Reflecting the suspicion the attack was carried out by dissident republicans, he said those behind the attack were “committed to the fallacy that they are at war with the British establishment” but it was “not with the British Government or the PSNI.
He said his thoughts remained with “an officer who was serving his community and hope that he makes a recovery.”
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