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A 25-year-old man is be­ing treat­ed at the hos­pi­tal af­ter he was shot while rid­ing his bi­cy­cle near a veg­etable stall in Rio Claro on Thurs­day night.

Po­lice said around 9 pm, Fa­reed Mo­hammed was rid­ing through Union Vil­lage when he heard a loud ex­plo­sion and im­me­di­ate­ly felt a burn­ing sen­sa­tion in his back.

De­spite his in­jury, Mo­hammed man­aged to ride home, where he dis­cov­ered he had been shot. He was quick­ly tak­en to the Ma­yaro Health Fa­cil­i­ty for emer­gency med­ical at­ten­tion by rel­a­tives.