Man sustains serious facial injuries during assault in Strabane

Police are treating an attack on a man in Strabane on New Year’s Eve as a “racially-motivated hate crime”.

The man in his 40s sustained serious facial injuries after being punched and kicked outside Strabane Library on Railway Street just before 2:15am on Sunday.

Police have described it as a nasty assault.

They say they are aware that many people were socialising on Railway Streety at the time and are appealing to anyone who witnessed the attack or has a recording of it to contact them.

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