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| Man 'murdered with baseball bat' | |
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| Police believe a baseball bat may have been used to assault a 66-year-old man who later died in hospital. | |
| A murder inquiry has been launched after the attack at a bus shelter in the Cornish village of Dobwalls. | |
| The incident happened on Duloe Road on Thursday afternoon. The man was taken to hospital with serious head injuries but was later pronounced dead. | |
| A 20-year-old man from the Looe area was arrested in Liskeard on suspicion of assault and is still in custody. | A 20-year-old man from the Looe area was arrested in Liskeard on suspicion of assault and is still in custody. |
| The 66-year-old man had been walking his dog along the road at about 1640 BST on Thursday afternoon when he was attacked while passing a bus shelter. | |
| Dobwalls residents said they were shocked and stunned, with one woman telling the BBC: "You don't get this kind of thing in Cornwall. In the towns maybe, but not somewhere like here." | |
| This Sunday a major sponsored walk along the new Dobwalls bypass had been due to take place before the road opens to traffic. | |
| It had been planned as a celebration of the completion of a major road-building project to link the village to the surrounding area. |