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The Sydney siege led to a 16-hour standoff, after which a gunshot was heard from inside and police officers from the Tactical Operations Unit (TOU) stormed the café. Hostage Tori Johnson was killed by Monis and hostage Katrina Dawson was killed by a police bullet ricochet in the subsequent raid. Monis was also killed.
The Sydney siege inquest was an inquest into the deaths that occurred during the Lindt Cafe siege, which was instigated by Man Haron Monis. The inquest started on 29 January 2015, had more than 100 witnesses and was run in blocks into 2016. [1] In Australia, an inquest is mandatory whenever a person dies during a police operation.
On September 16, 2024, the Fairfax County Police Department received a request for a welfare check for Sydney Wilson from a mental health counselor, who described her as being in an "agitated state". Officer Peter Liu arrived at Wilson's apartment building at around 10:20 a.m. Liu knocked on the door, and Wilson answered, saying "hi" twice ...
Emergency services were called to Lalor Park, about 35 km (20 miles) west of Sydney's city centre, around 1 a.m. on Sunday (1500 GMT, Saturday) after a fire ripped through a house.
Netflix's Exposed: The Ghost Train Fire (2021) details the horrific fire on a ride at Luna Park in Sydney, Australia. On June 9, 1979, the amusement park's iconic Ghost Train ride burst into ...
Around 6:26 p.m., the two officers found the man, Urayoan Rodriguez-Rivera, bleeding from a gunshot wound to the head. The officers discovered upon arrival that Rodriguez-Rivera was still alive.
A man opened fire in front of a nightclub with a double-barreled sawn-off shotgun, killing one man and wounding nine others. [22] 10 November 1997: Chippendale, New South Wales: 3 1 4: A gang-related shooting at Blackmarket Cafe nightclub left three men killed and another man wounded. [23] 31 August 1997: Mackay, Queensland: 0 5 5
The Port Arthur massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on 28 April 1996 at Port Arthur, a tourist town in the Australian state of Tasmania.The perpetrator, Martin Bryant, killed 35 people and wounded 23 others, the deadliest massacre in modern Australian history. [3]