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Australia shootings: Two dead near Sydney police HQ | |
(about 4 hours later) | |
Two people have been killed in a shooting outside New South Wales state police headquarters in western Sydney, Australian police say. | Two people have been killed in a shooting outside New South Wales state police headquarters in western Sydney, Australian police say. |
A civilian police employee was "callously murdered" at close range as he left work and had been deliberately targeted, state police commissioner Andrew Scipione said. | |
The gunman, who was killed by police fire, is yet to be identified. | |
Commissioner Scipione declined to speculate on a motive for the attack. | |
The incident occurred at about 16:30 local time (06:30 GMT). | |
There was no evidence to link the incident to terrorist-related activity, he said. | |
The victim has not been named. | |
A critical incident team will now investigate all circumstances surrounding the incident, police say. | A critical incident team will now investigate all circumstances surrounding the incident, police say. |
'Two more shots' | |
Vijay Dantu, who lives opposite the police building, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation he heard multiple gunshots. | |
"I was doing some work at my home and there's a gun shot and I thought it was a tyre puncture," Mr Dantu said. | "I was doing some work at my home and there's a gun shot and I thought it was a tyre puncture," Mr Dantu said. |
"Then all of a sudden... two more shots came." | |
After firing a single shot at the victim, the gunman fired on other officers and was killed when they returned fire, police said. | |
They believe the gunman was acting alone. |