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| Driver 'serious' in brick attack | Driver 'serious' in brick attack |
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| A taxi driver is being treated in intensive care after a brick was thrown at his car windscreen in County Down. | A taxi driver is being treated in intensive care after a brick was thrown at his car windscreen in County Down. |
| He was driving along the Portaferry Road at about 2230 GMT on Saturday when it is thought that people in another car threw a brick. | He was driving along the Portaferry Road at about 2230 GMT on Saturday when it is thought that people in another car threw a brick. |
| It smashed the windscreen and he sufferer severe head and facial injuries. | |
| Police said they were investigating a similar attack on a woman driver on the same road over an hour earlier. | |
| The woman escaped injury when a group of youths threw a bottle at the car she was driving about two miles outside Portaferry. | |
| A PSNI spokesperson said her windscreen was shattered and she was very shaken by the incident. | |
| Detectives have appealed for anyone with information about the attacks to contact them. |