Sydney Hostages Freed, Terrorist Subdued

Police have declared the siege over in Sydney after armed officers stormed the chocolate shop at the center of a hostage crisis and hostages were seen fleeing amid the sound of explosions.

From ABC News (Australia):

At 10:19 a.m. ET, a group of at least seven heavily armed police officers went into the Lindt cafe under the cover of loud bangs of what local news Channel 9 is calling stun grenades. Shortly after the police stormed the café, at least two hostages emerged, looking visibly shaken.

A few minutes later, a few paramedics were seen entering the café behind police officers with medical packs — followed by at least two stretchers.

The explosive police action came shortly after a new wave of hostages emerged from the shop.

The suspect was identified as Man Monis, a radial Iranian-born cleric, according to Australian news reports.

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3 Comments

  • non-gender

    update: besides the injured, two people, including the terrorist were killed. The newspaper did not mention that this was a terrorist attack nor that this was a Jewish shop. Well, political correctness rules
    Yet, his shooter has a criminal record that was a mile long ad he was walking still the streets.
    How many more incidents will occur before people will wake up because these lone wolf terrorist attacks will continue unless governments act now and dump political correctness attitude