Australian officials confirmed this Tuesday 6 people, including 2 policemen, lost their lives in the conflict. It occurred the previous day in a rural area of the state of Queensland in the northeast of ocean country.
The deaths of two police officers and a civilian were first reported last night after four police officers drove to a rural property in Wieambilla in the Western Downs region, about 270 kilometers west of Brisbane, at around 4:45 PM local time. :45 GMT) on Monday, to investigate a missing persons report.
“The operational response to the Wiembilla siege incident concluded last night. Despite all the efforts of the police, the incident could not be resolved peacefully and peacefully. there were three criminals sad fatal “A total of six people were killed,” Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said in a statement today.
Among the dead are police officers Matthew Arnold (26) and Rachel McCrow (29) and an unidentified 58-year-old neighbor. All three of the attackers, two men and one woman, who had “considerable weapons”, died in this confusing incident, the commissioner said. Likewise, another police officer was injured and a fourth escaped unhurt, while another civilian managed to escape the scene with his life.
“It’s a miracle the other two survived,” Carroll added, noting that it would take “several days if not weeks” for authorities to “decipher every aspect of the scene but every second of what happened.”
Ian Leavers, head of the Queensland Police Syndicate, described the killing of the two officers as follows: a brutal and “cold-blooded” “execution”, according to statements collected by ABC today. “As soon as they entered the property, they came under gunfire and never had a chance (to defend themselves),” Leavers said, thinking that “the ruthless and murderous trio showed no mercy.”
Four Queensland police officers went to Wieambilla’s property Monday afternoon to check on the whereabouts of a missing person, at the request of neighboring New South Wales state police. “According to my report, this person has been missing for about 12 months, but communication with him has been maintained. However, that link has been lost in recent days and they (New South Wales Police) just wanted to confirm that person is missing.”, the commissioner explained.