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Irish priest shot in South Africa
Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:22

A missionary priest who is originally from Belfast has been shot in South Africa. Father Kieran Creagh, who works with Aids sufferers, was attacked at the hospice he built in Johannesburg. He is now said to be in a stable condition in hospital. Father Creagh's brother Liam said it was a traumatic experience: 'Two men came in and over-powered the guards. 'They went up to the apartment where he stays at the hospice and they rang the bell. He thought it was a patient coming to get him. 'He opened the door and I think there was a bit of a struggle. 'They fired two shots at least. One shot hit him in one of his lungs, and it is lodged there, and the other shot went through his arm.'
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South Africa: Gang Shoots Priest in Hospice Attack

Cape Argus (Cape Town)
March 1, 2007

The Irish priest who was the first person in South Africa and Africa to volunteer to take part in the country's first HIV vaccine trial run by the South African Aids Vaccine Initiative in 2003, is fighting for his life after being shot three times. Father Kieran Creagh heard a bell ring at his flat at the Leratong Hospice in Soshanguve, near Pretoria, last night and thought it was a nurse summoning him to come and pray with a dying patient. But when he opened the door he was confronted by eight gunmen. He was shot three times. Creagh, director of the hospice and who lives on the premises, was alone in his flat when he was attacked by the gang, which appears to have taken his cellphone and DVD player.

This morning Creagh was in critical condition in ICU at the Zuid Afrikaans Hospital. Matron Ramigia Tloubatla, who accompanied him in the ambulance and was at his side throughout the night, said surgeons were planning to operate soon. She said Creagh had remained awake and had spoken to her about what had happened. "He said somebody rang the bell and he thought it was a nurse calling him to a patient. But when he opened the door he was confronted with a gun ... and then they were all on top of him. About eight guys," she said. - Staff Reporter

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Please keep Kieran in your thoughts and prayers (of whatever brand).