update : Police confirm two hostages and gunman killed in #sydneysiege Police have confirmed three people are dead. Police said the 50-year-old man who took the hostages died at hospital after a confrontation between himself and police this morning where shots were fired. A 34-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman, who were among the hostages, were shot and pronounced dead at hospital. Two women were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Another woman was taken to hospital with a gunshot wound to her shoulder. A male police officer suffered non-life threatening wounds to his face from gunshot pellets. All 17 hostages from the deadly central Sydney cafe siege have been accounted for, New South Wales Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said in a press conference. The Commissioner also urged people not to speculate or develop theories about what happened inside the cafe and said police believed more lives could have been lost if officers had not entered the cafe at that point.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:59:36 +0000
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