Shootout in Australia two policemen killed
2022.12.13 01:45
Shootout in Australia two policemen killed
Budrigannews.com – Authorities in Australia’s Queensland state said on Tuesday that a gunfight at a remote property resulted in the deaths of six people, including two police officers, following a visit to a residence to investigate a missing person report.
At the point when four officials showed up around 4:30 p.m. on Monday at the property in Wieambilla, around 300 km (186 miles) northwest of Queensland’s capital, Brisbane, two outfitted individuals started shooting and killed two of them, police said, without recognizing the suspects.
Without providing additional details, the police stated that the house was under a “siege” at that point. Police said 16 expert officials answered and, in a firearm fight around 10:30 p.m., killed a 46-year-elderly person from Kewarra Ocean side, around 1,500km northwest of the property; and a man of 47 and a woman of 45, both from Wieambilla.
According to the police, Constable Rachel McCrow, 29, and Constable Matthew Arnold, both 26, were killed in the incident. A 58-year-old neighbor was also killed by gunfire, according to police, who did not identify the victim.
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According to police, two additional officers sustained non-life-threatening injuries and were taken to the hospital.
After a New South Wales missing person report for a person who was thought to be at the property, Arnold and McCrow went to the house.
The incident was referred to by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as a “terrible and heartbreaking day.”
After a gunman killed 35 people in April 1996 at a cafe and tourist attraction at the former colonial prison of Port Arthur in the island state of Tasmania, Australia implemented some of the strictest gun laws in the world. Gun crime is relatively uncommon in Australia.
According to Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll, the shooting resulted in the most fatalities for the state police in a single incident in recent memory.
