Police cordoned off an area just outside McGraths Bar on the Cliftonville Road at approximately 9pm. Residents told the Belfast Telegraph they heard four or five shots being fired. The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) was dispatched to the area, where a man was pronounced dead. Pictures from the scene showed a heavy police presence. A spokesperson for the NIAS said it received a 999 call following reports of a shooting incident in the Cliftonville Road area of north Belfast. “The NIAS dispatched one rapid response paramedic, two emergency crews and an ambulance officer to the incident,” they added. “Following initial assessment, all ambulances resources cleared the scene and no patients were taken from the scene.”