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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Catie McLeod and Cait Kellyin Wangaratta

‘This is his back yard’: police asked about booby traps and shelters as Porepunkah manhunt heads into fourth day

Two police vehicles travelling in opposite directions on a wet road. One on the left is a black armoured car
Victoria police said on Thursday they had conducted searches on multiple properties near Porepunkah, warning anyone who harboured the alleged gunman would be prosecuted. Photograph: Simon Dallinger/AAP

The entrance to Wangaratta police station is filled with flowers. The trestle tables set up in the foyer had overflowed by Thursday afternoon, the third day of the search for Dezi Freeman, so there were bouquets on the floor.

Friends, colleagues and strangers had left written messages paying tribute to the two police officers Freeman allegedly shot and killed in nearby Porepunkah on Tuesday.

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