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Article: Biker gunman targets family in terror attack; Three escape injury in drive-by shooting outside Royal Infirmary
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- August 9, 2002
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A GUNMAN on a motorbike attacked a brother and sister and their
baby niece in a drive-by shooting in Glasgow city centre.
The pillion rider blasted the family car as it waited in a queue
of traffic near the busy Royal Infirmary.
Buckshot from a sawn-off shotgun peppered the car as the aunt and
uncle sat with the four- month-old girl, who they had been baby-
sitting.
The man, 37, his 35-year-old sister, and the baby were showered
with glass from broken windows - but all three luckily escaped
injury.
The shots also sprayed past the silver Rover car towards a nearby
bus stop, just missing passengers who were waiting there.
Detectives today refused to comment on any possible motive for the ...