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| Police attending ‘active incident’ at rural property in Victoria, Porepunkah primary school in lockdown | |
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| Police urge people to ‘avoid the area’ after media reports of officer injured in shooting and two missing at Porepunkah, 300km north-east of Melbourne | |
| Police have confirmed they are attending an “active incident” at a rural property in Victoria, after media reports an officer had been injured in a shooting. | Police have confirmed they are attending an “active incident” at a rural property in Victoria, after media reports an officer had been injured in a shooting. |
| Officers attended a property at Porepunkah, in the state’s Alpine region, about 300km north-east of Melbourne on Tuesday morning to serve a warrant, The Age reported. | Officers attended a property at Porepunkah, in the state’s Alpine region, about 300km north-east of Melbourne on Tuesday morning to serve a warrant, The Age reported. |
| One officer was shot in the thigh and two were unaccounted for, the report said. | One officer was shot in the thigh and two were unaccounted for, the report said. |
| In a statement, Victoria police would not confirm those details but did say that officers were at a property in Porepunkah. | In a statement, Victoria police would not confirm those details but did say that officers were at a property in Porepunkah. |
| “This is still an active incident and we will provide more information when it’s operationally safe to do so. | “This is still an active incident and we will provide more information when it’s operationally safe to do so. |
| “We ask people avoid the area,” the statement said. | “We ask people avoid the area,” the statement said. |
| A spokesperson for Porepunkah primary school confirmed the school was in lockdown. | |
| Earlier, the school’s principal, Jill Gillies, told the ABC they were advised to not let the students out at 11.30am. | |
| “We were told there was an incident near the school,” she said. | |
| More details soon … | More details soon … |