Suspected assassins arrested on way to collecting weapon

GARDAÍ foiled a gangland hit in Limerick yesterday when they swooped on three suspected assassins as they went to pick up the murder weapon.

Gardaí believe the men, two from the Middle East and one from Dublin, were hired to carry out a shooting an behalf of a feud gang.

The three were stopped by armed detectives as they went to pick up a powerful loaded automatic weapon from a car which had been sent ahead separately to the city.