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AFP and Victoria police in joint counter-terrorism raids in Melbourne AFP and Victoria police in counter-terrorism raids in Melbourne suburbs
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Joint Victoria police and Australian federal police counter-terrorism raids are under way at a number of properties in Melbourne’s south-west. Joint Victoria police and Australian federal police raids are under way at a number of properties in Melbourne.
Search warrants are being executed as part of a joint operation in the Melbourne suburbs of Flemington, Meadow Heights and Seabrook, a Victoria police spokesman said.Search warrants are being executed as part of a joint operation in the Melbourne suburbs of Flemington, Meadow Heights and Seabrook, a Victoria police spokesman said.
An AFP spokesperson has confirmed that the raids are counter-terrorism related. “The Australian Federal Police and Victoria police joint counter -terrorism team can confirm that a number of search warrants are being conducted as part of an operation in the following suburbs - Seabrook, Kealba, Meadow Heights, Broadmeadows and Flemington,” an AFP spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday morning.
More to follow. “This operational activity is not in response to a threat to public safety nor is it related to last week’s incident at Endeavour Hills.
“While this activity is continuing no further comment will be made.”
At least one man has been taken away by police at Seabrook.
The AFP said the raids are “not in response to a threat to public safety” and unrelated to last week’s incident at Endeavour Hills, in which 18-year-old Abdul Numan Haider was shot and killed after stabbing two police officers.
More than 800 officers were involved in Australia’s largest counter-terror operation on 18 September at homes in Sydney and Melbourne, which saw one man, 22-year-old Omarjan Azari, charged with preparing to commit a terror attack.