NSW: Police search for gun believed used in murders

AAP General News (Australia)
08-06-1999
NSW: Police search for gun believed used in murders

SYDNEY, Aug 6 AAP - A search of a river today failed to find a handgun believed to have
been used to murder two footballers outside a Sydney hotel, police said.

Strikeforce Mask's Detective Inspector Glen Ross said police had spent the past week
searching parts of the Cooks River near Campsie in the city's south-west for the gun believed
linked to the shooting of Adam Wright and Michael Hurle at Five Dock in July last year.

Police had received information the weapon, a .22 calibre handgun, had been thrown into the
river, Insp Ross said.

Police divers planned a further search of the river, he said.

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KEYWORD: GUNFIRE

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