BURSTOver 100 police and volunteers join five-day search in Mount Buffalo national park. Follow today’s news live
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Good morning, and welcome to Monday. Nick Visser here to take you through the day’s news. Here’s what’s on deck to start the week:
Victoria police will begin a renewed search for fugitive Dezi Freeman in the Mount Buffalo national park. More than 100 police and volunteers will hunt for the man near an area searched in December, more than five months after two officers were fatally shot at Freeman’s property in Porepunkah. Police said the new five-day search is based on “intelligence derived from information police obtained in relation to a gunshot heard a short time after the fatal incident at Freeman’s Rayner Track property” in August.
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