Sydney police hunt gunman who opened fire on venue

A manhunt was under way in Sydney on June 7 after shots were fired at the venue of a planned funeral for a prominent underworld figure killed in Vietnam, police and local media said.



The purported leader of Sydney's so-called "Coconut Cartel", Lorenzo Lemalu, was shot dead in May outside a seafood restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City.



Vietnamese police arrested two suspects, both of Samoan nationality, who later admitted to the killing in a televised confession.



On June 6, footage emerged of a gunman in a car firing multiple shots at a venue slated to host Lemalu’s funeral in Sydney’s west.



The video on a social media channel sharing updates about the city's underworld shows a man firing an assault rifle, while another person tells him to aim for the venue's windows and laughs.



Police told AFP no one was wounded and they later found an abandoned car linked to the shooting set alight.



The funeral was held at a prominent Sydney mosque on June 7, national broadcaster ABC said.