IRISH folk singer Cara Dillon has said she was shot in the face by pellets from a suspected BB gun while walking through a town in the UK. Ms Dillon, from Dungiven, Co Derry , was one of two people hit in separate incidents in Frome, Somerset, on Wednesday evening. The 48-year-old said she and her husband Sam Lakeman were on the corner of Bath Street and Cork Street when a vehicle drove past with the window down.
She wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “Firstly, thank you to everyone for your kind messages, you really are the best! "I posted on Twitter shortly after it happened to warn other residents in my local town of Frome to be aware, I really didn't expect it to be such a big story, so here's a bit more info to bring you up to speed. "Sam and I were walking to meet friends for dinner in the town centre and were on the corner of Bath Street and Cork Street at 7pm when a vehicle drove past with the window down. "We both heard an automatic BB or Airsoft gun fire about eight to 12 shots and I was hit in the face several times.
“My left eyeball was hit, my cheek and around my eye. “It felt like someone had thrown a handful of stones at me, it was very painful.” She said the incident left her “in tears” and she could not open her eye.
“While on the phone to the police, Sam started looking for pellets on the ground and found about seven,” she said. She said the police were on the scene “very quickly” and were “very helpful and considerate”. She said she was l.
