Londonderry: Man taken to hospital after being shot in Whitehouse Road
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Whitehouse Road remains closed following the shooting
A man has been taken to hospital after he was shot in Londonderry, police have said.
The incident happened at about 21:30 GMT on Monday in the Whitehouse Road area of the city.
The man was shot in the calf and is receiving medical treatment for his wounds.
A road closure is in place in the wider Whitehouse Road area as an investigation is under way. Police have appealed for information.
The MP for the area, Social Democratic and Labour Party leader Colum Eastwood, said the attack was "yet another dangerous attempt to intimidate people in our community".
"These attacks hark back to the darkest period of our past and I call on those responsible to end this violence and for these guns to be removed from our streets before someone else is wounded or worse," he said.