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Waving in the New Year Payam Dari School performers were part of a spectacular Nowruz festival in Dandenong Park on Sunday 6 April. on the stage. Crowds filled the park to enjoy entertaiment and foods and to celebrate Persian New Year. More pictures, turn to page 15
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Gun threats shock In a shocking sequence of events, residents have been allegedly threatened with guns in two disturbing incidents reported last week. The first referred to an allegedly gun-toting dirtbike rider who pointed what appeared to be a black handgun for about 10 seconds at a woman and her seven-year-old daughter in Tirhatuan Reserve in Dandenong North on 25 March. Last week, police released a computer-gener-
ated image of a male youth that they are searching for, as well as images of his riding leathers. Meanwhile on Friday 3 April, a woman in a stolen car and armed with a gun was shot by police in Mulgrave, police alleged. The car was reportedly evading police for hours, with a gun pointed out the window at pedestrians, police say. The shot woman was allegedly pointing the
gun at the male driver sitting next to her at the time. She was taken to hospital in a non-critical condition and was under police guard. The male, a 27-year-old from Noble Park, was charged with 21 offences including aggravated carjacking, robbery and being a prohibited person with a firearm. The day before, an man allegedly armed with a
gun had carjacked the vehicle from a Noble Park family home. A 23-year-old Narre Warren man was also arrested in Dandenong on Friday and charged with murder over a 2023 fatal shooting of Mohammad Keshtiar in South Yarra. For more details on the incidents, turn to pages 2 and 5
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