Taskforce Magnus was announced on Thursday after five shootings took place in Greenacre and Canterbury across Sydney's south-west, leaving three injured and two dead.
In five days, as many shootings occurred across Greenacre and Canterbury in the city's south-west, leaving three injured and two dead.
"The purpose of the taskforce is to examine all matters, to assume at the start they're all linked and then exclude them as we go through the investigation," she told reporters. Police pictured at the crime scene on Broughton Street in Canterbury. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Damian Shaw Police said the spate of gun violence may be linked to conflict arising from the alleged supply of prohibited drugs in the south-west Sydney region.
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