A family spent a summer day by a river insouth London when something ominous happened. That's when they fished out his Uzi submachine gun and up to 10 other firearms that had been dumped in the river. water.
On Saturday, 32-year-old Ryan Ball sent his three children (ages 11, 5, and 1) to the River at Linear Park, between Catford and . When I took him to the Pool, I made a shocking discovery. Sydenham.
James White, a friend of his son, was taking a dip to cool off when he came across a metal object at the bottom of the river. When pulled out, they found it to be the magazine that would have contained the bullet. A cache of up to 11 guns was discovered.
There were also other guns that were disassembled before being dumped in the water, and items described as possible "explosives."
At least he had ten magazines and a number of individual bullets also taken from the water.
Ball said: magazine from the gun.
"Then he started looking underwater, pulling out all the things in the picture one after another.
"Then I contacted the police, and they came and took the weapon. "I wish it was a bad dream," James told MyLondon, adding that the "conical" metal He added that when he found the object, he was worried it "might be an explosive".
Police were called to the scene in the evening after weapons and ammunition were found.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: officers were present.
"Firearms and ammunition have been recovered and removed from the scene."
