Updated 6.15pm

The police have traced the source of gunshots that damaged a Sliema property to an apartment on an adjacent street.

No one was injured in the shooting. 

The owner of the apartment told police his gun "accidentally" went off at 2am on Friday.

However, it was not until 11am that the police were called to a Sliema residence on Amery Street to look into gunshots that had damaged the property.

When the police reached the scene they found shattered glass. 

Police spokesperson Brandon Pisani speaks at the scene. Video: Jonathan Borg

Police then spoke to a 50-year-old Sliema man who lives in an apartment on High Street from where the shooting allegedly took place. 

Magistrate Abigail Critien is leading an inquiry. 

It took place in the same block where, on New Year's Day 2012, Duncan Zammit, 32, and Nicholas Gera, 26, died of multiple stab wounds in Zammit’s apartment.

At the time, the police were unaware of the motives and had not established any links between the Zammit family and Gera, who entered the home in the early hours of the first day of the year.

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