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| One man has been shot dead and two others injured after gunmen opened fire during a weigh-in for a boxing bout at a Dublin hotel, police said. | One man has been shot dead and two others injured after gunmen opened fire during a weigh-in for a boxing bout at a Dublin hotel, police said. |
| Three men reportedly dress in police-style uniforms burst into the Regency Hotel in the Drumcondra district armed with what witnesses said were rifles that looked like AK-47s. | Three men reportedly dress in police-style uniforms burst into the Regency Hotel in the Drumcondra district armed with what witnesses said were rifles that looked like AK-47s. |
| Dozens of people who had gathered for the weigh-in of the WBO European lightweight fight fled the hotel when the men opened fire at 2.30pm. | Dozens of people who had gathered for the weigh-in of the WBO European lightweight fight fled the hotel when the men opened fire at 2.30pm. |
| The injured men, aged in their 20s and 30s, were taken to the Beaumont and the Mater Misericordiae University hospitals. | |
| The fight’s promoters, MGM, had advertised the official weigh-in for the “Clash of the Clans” show at the Regency, on the main road to Dublin airport.. | The fight’s promoters, MGM, had advertised the official weigh-in for the “Clash of the Clans” show at the Regency, on the main road to Dublin airport.. |
| The headline bout is on Saturday night between the Irish boxer Jamie Kavanagh and Antonio João Bento for the vacant WBO title. That fight, and another between Gary Corcoran and Danny Butler, is scheduled to be broadcast live on the Box Nation TV channel at Ireland’s National Arena in Tallaght, west Dublin. | |
| The Dublin fire brigade said it had dispatched two crews and advanced paramedics to an incident at a hotel in Dublin. | The Dublin fire brigade said it had dispatched two crews and advanced paramedics to an incident at a hotel in Dublin. |
| Box Nation, the television channel scheduled to broadcast the fight, said in a message on Twitter that the show had been cancelled due to the shooting. | |
| “Following today’s incident at the Dublin weigh in, tomorrow’s show from the National Stadium has been cancelled,” the post said. | |
| The bout was being promoted by Frank Warren and MGM Promotions, according to MGM, a Marbella-based gym run by Birmingham-born Irish boxer Matthew Macklin. | |
| Two years ago, former European light-middleweight boxing champion Jamie Moore was shot twice in the legs in Marbella, where he was training Macklin at the time. | |
| The Press Association contributed to this report |