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A number of hostages in a popular cafe. Bureau,our Bloomberg Paul allen is covering events for us. What more do we know . There have been a few developments since last we spoke. The police have pushed their street,ack to hunter the block our building is on. You can see the high shot taken out of the window of our building. Building, you can see, is not a cafe. The cafe it self is about a further 100 meters up the road to the left. This is right across the street from the reserve bank of australia and directly across the plaza from channel 7, which has also been evacuated. Hourer development at this is the number of people inside the building. We have been saying it is believed to be up to 20. We have since spoken to the ceo of lindt australia and he said there were 10 working at the time and could be up to 30 customers. There could be up to 40, but that has not been confirmed by the police or any other agency. We have seen pictures of people with their hands up against the window. Two