English tourists attacked with hatchets

Two men have been charged after a campervan was hijacked in County Louth, close to the south Armagh border.
Two English tourists are still recovering in hospital after being subject to a horrific hatchet attack and robbery. The couple from Lincolnshire, England were asleep in their campervan were attacked with hatchets on Monday as they slept in their camper van in a lay-by at Carrickarnon in north Co Louth.
The woman, 56, who suffered a fractured skull, and her 61-year-old husband were asleep in the campervan when the attack happened.
The husband and wife had arrived on the ferry in Antrim and had driven south just over the Armagh border and stopped in the Louth lay by, where they parked at around 11pm. At around 4 am a reported gang of three men broke into their van and attacked them with hatchets. The gang forced the couple out of their van which was then driven back across the Armagh side of the border. The tourists camper van was found burnt out in the village of Meigh, in south Armagh.
The woman sustained a fractured skull and lacerations, the man received deep cuts to his body. The couple remain in a stable condition in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.
The Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern, described the attack on two British tourists in Co Louth as 'despicable'. He urged anyone with information to contact either the gardaí or the PSNI and end what he described as 'cowardly border attacks' once and for all.
Two men, aged 20 and 21, have been charged with two counts of attempted murder, aggravated burglary, hi-jacking and arson.
They will appear at Newry Magistrates Court today.

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