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Man critical after murder attempt Ex-prisoner critical after attack
(about 10 hours later)
A man is in a critical condition in hospital after an attempted murder in west Belfast. A 51-year-old man is on a life support machine after being attacked in west Belfast.
It is thought the victim, who is in his early 50s, was attacked by two men shortly after 1830 GMT on Saturday at a house in Ross Street. Former republican prisoner Frank McGreevy was assaulted at his home in Ross Street shortly after 1830 GMT on Saturday.
It is believed the pair were armed with a baseball bat. Police are treating the incident as attempted murder. A 20-year-old man is being questioned by police.
Detectives said they were treating the incident as attempted murder and have appealed for witnesses or anyone with information to contact them. Acting Detective Superintendent Jeff Smyth said they were following a definite line of inquiry.
"As such last evening in the middle of the night, members of the PSNI, under my direction, searched a number of houses in this community looking for a suspect," he said.
The Chairman of the Falls Road Residents' Association, Robert McClenaghan, knows the victim well.
He said: "He is a former prisoner who served a life sentence. So he would be very well known.
"For something as brutal as this to happen to him, is a real shock to all of us in the community who knew him over many, many years."
Detectives later said the 20-year-old man had handed himself in at Grosevnor Road police station.
Any witnesses to the incident have been urged to come forward.