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The police in sydney, australia, waited hour after hour today and then gunfire rang out so they could wait no longer. They stormed a cafee where a gunman had taken 17 hostages. The Prime Minister said the man who apparently acted alone had a long history of violent crime, infatuation with extremism and mental insablty. Ben tracy begins our coverage in sydney. Reporter just before 2 00 a. M. , five hostages managed to escape and made a frantic dash toward riot police. Minutes later there was a series of loud explosions. [three explosions] followed by flashes of heavy gunfire that continued for 30 seconds. More than 16 hours after the hostage crisis began, Australian Army commandos poured in to end it. When it was over, five people were injured and three were dead, including the hostagetaker, an iranian refugee called man haron monis. Monis sought asylum in australia in 1996 a ....
Parts of downtown ottawa remain in a state of lockdown tonight after violence in the capital city a province of ontario, 60 miles from the border. Nathan zarillo was shot and killed by a man witnesses said had a scarf over his face. Soon after, a gunman entered the parlment building where witnesses heard dozens of gunshots. A gunman died in the shootout, and his name is michael zehofbibeau. Others credit 58yearold Kevin Vickers with shooting the attacker. There were reports that the police were hunting for other suspects, but the police have not confirmed that. All of this two days after a radicalized islamic convert killed two police. Shes now the permanent observer for the United Nations for the interparliamentary union. But before i talk to patty, i want to talk to the man whose ultimate responsibility it was for the safety. Meter mcmillen was the speaker of the house for p ....
Hello, im ray suarez. Well get to our main story in a moment, but first, the latest from ottawa, where gunfire erupted at the Canadian Parliament building and two other locations near there. [ gunshots ] you can hear many shots fired in this video from inside of the parliament building. Two people are dead. And one is presumed, the shooter still not identified at this point. And the other casualty, a canadian soldier who was standing it guard at a war memorial not far from the parliament building. According to witnesses, the soldier was killed by a man with a rifle, all dressed in black with a scarf over his face. Heres what witnesses from outside saw. The guy came from the side, on my lefthand side, and came out with a rifle and shot at the man, and then the guy went falling down, and everybody was just in shock. Couldnt believe that something alike this could just happen or be real. It was beyond realism. I saw a woman who ....
What has everybody in such great anxiety at ottawa this hour is reports of shootings in other locations and Ottawa Police saying they are still look out for other suspects, they are stopping cars trying to go to quebec. They have asked the public to stay signed, schools are on lock down and police going door by door downtown in a search effort. A manhunt for additional suspects. This has been remark for people there. You can see the pictures. People are standing by, the rcpm has injuries difference. And we expect them to clarify whether or not there were shootings at more than the would occasions we mentioned the war memorial and the center block of parliament whether in facts there was a shooting at the shoot toe thole nearby and at the rideau certainty which is a nearby Shopping Mall or whether those were false reports, simply transmit today police because people heard the sh ....