Police recover gun of same type used to kill Lyra McKee in Northern Ireland

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The handgun was found along with a fully primed bomb and ammunition in an area where police say children often play

According to the PSNI statement, the weapons were found by police and military personnel searching an area of more than 38 acres of land on Friday and Saturday."This operation was designed specifically to find items we believed were being stored by violent dissident republicans in the Ballymagroarty area and which posed a serious and imminent risk to the community," said chief superintendent Emma Bond.

"A strong line of enquiry is that these munitions belong to the New IRA. They have now been seized and will be subject to rigorous forensic examination in the coming days and weeks," she added."Whilst we regard this as an encouraging line of enquiry, I will repeat that we cannot definitively say at this time whether or not this is the murder weapon. That determination will be guided by the forensics.

 

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