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26/11/2007
Seven Arrested Over Ward Murder
Seven people are understood to have been arrested in connection with the murder of Sligo man Tom Ward in August.
Mr Ward, 23, was attacked with an axe as he sat in a van outside his parents home in Joe McDonnell Drive in the Cranmore Estate in August. He was married with a two-year-old daughter.
A car was later found abandoned, four miles from the murder scene, containing an axe and a number of balaclavas.
It is understood that those arrested are being held at Garda stations in Sligo, Carrick-on-Shannon, Castlebar and Manorhamilton.
(KMcA)
Mr Ward, 23, was attacked with an axe as he sat in a van outside his parents home in Joe McDonnell Drive in the Cranmore Estate in August. He was married with a two-year-old daughter.
A car was later found abandoned, four miles from the murder scene, containing an axe and a number of balaclavas.
It is understood that those arrested are being held at Garda stations in Sligo, Carrick-on-Shannon, Castlebar and Manorhamilton.
(KMcA)
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