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Man steals Seven News car escaping siege and then crashes, police say









Man allegedly crashes car into a service station near Noosa in Queensland, causing a gas leak, before being arrested

















A man has reportedly stolen a Seven Network news car to escape police after a siege on the Sunshine Coast. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP



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Wednesday 5 November 2014 17.01 EST







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A siege in south-east Queensland has come to a dramatic end after a man reportedly fled in a stolen Seven Network news car and crashed into a service station, causing a gas leak.
Cameraman Pete Steer said he was driving outside Noosa Heads when the siege suspect, approaching from the opposite direction on a motorbike, flagged him down.When Steer pulled over, the man allegedly handed him a gun, stole his news van and fled the scene in it.“He gave himself up to me, he gave me a gun, which he said was a replica and told me to phone the police, which I did,” the cameraman told ABC radio on Thursday.“But between that, I took the gun off him, unfortunately while my back was turned he took off with the car.”
Police arrested the man at the Eumundi service station after he led them on a chase in the Seven Network news car.
Police were called when neighbours heard a gunshot at a Noosa Heads home about 4.30am on Thursday.
When they arrived they heard a man making threats to people inside.
The man then made a break for it on a motorbike, police say, before allegedly stealing the news car.
They lost track of the man, but a short time later they were called to a gas leak at a nearby service station.



As the drama was unfolding, local man Joe had just finished filling up his car at a petrol station at Eumundi.Suddenly he saw a Seven Network van slam into a gas tank.“Big crunch, gas everywhere, I just turned and bolted,” Joe told ABC radio.“I was in two minds - ‘oh shit, there’s someone in there’, another one was ‘shit, if that thing goes off I gotta get out of here’.”Police arrived moments later and arrested the driver of the stolen van.A 400m exclusion zone has been set up around the service station while emergency services deal with the gas leak.Police found an injured woman at the Noosa Heads home and she was taken to Nambour hospital.



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