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Breaking: Shots fired where gangster's funeral was advertised to be held
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- NSW Police say the shooting took place at the Diamond Venues Group in Punchbowl.
- It was the same venue that had earlier been posted on social media as the location for the funeral of Sydney gangster Lorenzo Lemalu, who was shot in a hail of bullets in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on May 2.
- But NSW Police said there was no funeral taking place and there were no mourners there when the shooting took place.
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NSW Police say the shooting took place at the Diamond Venues Group in Punchbowl. (ABC News)
Link copied Share Share article Multiple shots have been fired at a venue at Punchbowl, in Sydney's south-west, on Saturday afternoon.
It was the same venue that had earlier been posted on social media as the location for the funeral of Sydney gangster Lorenzo Lemalu, who was shot in a hail of bullets in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on May 2.
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