Irish Independent
Gardai are probing a fire which destroyed the Co Donegal home of a Derry man who was injured in a gun attack three months ago. The blaze at the unoccupied detached house in Transalla outside St Johnston in east Donegal was discovered by neighbours shortly before midnight on Sunday.
Nobody has lived in the house since the owner, a former taxi driver from the Creggan area of Derry, was shot and wounded outside it last September. A pipe-bomb was also left at the house the following month. The gardai have said the cause of the fire is under investigation.
In September, four masked men waited for the 26-year-old man to return home and surrounded his girlfriend as she got out of their car to open a gate. One man armed with a shotgun fired at him through the windscreen, hitting him in the neck. He was also shot with a handgun through the driver's window.
Despite his injuries, he managed to drive to a neighbour's house before being taken to Letterkenny General Hospital. His girlfriend was bundled into a large blue van but was freed two kilometres away.
A dog which was also in the car was struck with a bullet and had to be taken to a vet for treatment. It died of its injuries days later.
The Real IRA later admitted responsibility for the attack. In another attack in October, 10 families were evacuated from their neighbouring homes while Army bomb disposal experts dismantled a pipe-bomb attached to a five-gallon drum of petrol left outside the same house. The device partly exploded but failed to ignite the fuel.
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