WELLINGTON - New Zealand police were left red-faced on Friday after admitting 11 firearms had been stolen from a police station while in the midst of a nationwide buy-back scheme following the Christc
hurch massacre.
"I am very concerned about what has occurred. It is absolutely unacceptable," acting regional police commander Sarah Stewart said. "Eleven firearms which were in an exhibit storage area are currently unaccounted for. I should be clear that these were not police firearms, but were a range of weapons being held as exhibits or handed in for destruction," she said.
Police said they were searching for a 38-year-old man who was seen in the police yard around the time of the theft.
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