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						Weeping woman, two people on stretchers among hostages freed
				





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Hostages Flee Sydney Cafe Just Before Siege
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                    Hostages flee the Lindt Chocolat Caf in downtown Sydney moments before heavily armed police officers storm inside. A self-styled sheikh held several hostages at gunpoint in a siege lasting more than 16 hours. Photo: AP.
                




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Swoop ... an injured hostage is wheeled to an ambulance after shots were fired during a cafe siege at Martin Place. Picture: AP
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				A WEEPING woman was one of the freed hostages carried out of the Lindt Cafe after police stormed the hostage seige in Sydney at 2am.
				



A flurry of loud bangs erupted as a swarm of heavily armed police swooped on where the gunman had been holding hostages for more than 16 hours.







Freed ... hostages run to safety with their hands up as police swoop on the Lindt Cafe in Sydney’s Martin Place. Picture: Getty
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Three people are dead including two hostages - a 34-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman - and the hostage-taker Sheik Man Haron Monis. 
At least four others were injured, one of them a male police officer who was shot in the face from gunshot pellets, police said.A female hostage was shot in the leg, an official said, one of at least three people hospitalised for injuries and shock.At least two people were wheeled out of the cafe on stretchers and a weeping woman was helped out by police.One gurney was carrying what appeared to be a man lying under a blood-soaked sheet with a bloody handprint in the center. A woman with blood-covered feet lay on a second.The standoff ended when a loud bang was heard from the Lindt Chocolat Cafe and five people ran out.Shortly after, police swooped into the building, amid a barrage of gunfire, shouts and flashes. A police bomb disposal robot also was sent into the building.WORLD WATCHES: SYDNEY SIEGE LIVE AROUND THE WORLDTHE GUNMAN: WHO IS MAN HARON MONIS?







Siege ends ... paramedics work on an injured hostage as injured people are carried out of the cafe. Picture: AFP
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After the police moved in, one weeping woman was helped out by the officers and at least two other people were wheeled out on stretchers.Police were also seen performing CPR on two people, amid reports two people are dead and three injured. Three Sydney hospitals are on standby ready to receive injured, reports say.An Associated Press photographer near the scene heard a loud bang and saw five or six hostages running out of the Lindt Chocolat Cafe in downtown Sydney early this morning before police swooped in.







Free ... An injured hostage is carried to an ambulance. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
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The dramatic scene unfolded shortly after the gunman was identified by local media as Iranian-born Man Haron Monis, who is facing charges including sexual assault and accessory to murder in separate cases.Monis has long been on officials’ radar. Last year, he was sentenced to 300 hours of community service for writing offensive letters to families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan.







Dash to safety ... a hostage past police after escaping from the Lindt Cafe. Picture: AFP
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He was later charged with being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife. Earlier this year, he was charged with the sexual assault of a woman in 2002.He has been out on bail on the charges.







Rescue ... The terrified woman is carried out by police from the Lindt Cafe. Picture: Getty
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“This is a one-off random individual. It’s not a concerted terrorism event or act. It’s a damaged goods individual who’s done something outrageous,” his former lawyer, Manny Conditsis, told Australian Broadcasting Corp.“His ideology is just so strong and so powerful that it clouds his vision for common sense and objectiveness,” Conditsis said.






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