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Gardai probing discovery of two handguns hopeful to provide breakthrough in Cork cold case murders
Ann Mooney
2 Apr 2021, 7:00
GARDAI investigating the discovery of two handguns found in a ditch at a building site are hopeful they will provide a breakthrough in one of a number of cold case murders and shootings in the city.
The revolver and semi-automatic pistol were uncovered at Ballincollie Road near Whites Cross on Cork city’s northside on Wednesday.
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It’s understood workmen were doing excavation work on the ditch earlier and the guns were discovered in the disturbed earth by local teenagers who contacted the gardai.
Gardaà have have sent two handguns found on a Cork building site for ballistics analysis to see whether they may be linked to a number of shootings in the city in recent years.
Investigators believe the two guns, a revolver and a semi-automatic pistol, were disturbed by workmen on a construction site at Ballincollie Road near Whites Cross on the cityâs northside.
The workmen had been carrying out some excavation work on a ditch and the guns were discovered on Wednesday evening by some local teenagers who alerted gardaà from Watercourse Road.
The scene was preserved for a technical examination and the weapons have been sent for forensic and ballistics analysis by Garda technical experts in Dublin to see if they were used in any crime.