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Sydney siege: Martin Place cafe stormed by police after gunfire









Heavily armed police enter Lindt cafe, shooting dead gunman after shots were fired • Rolling coverage









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Monday 15 December 2014 15.12 EST







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An injured hostage is carried out of a cafe in the central business district of Sydney
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Armed police take aim outside the Lindt Cafe
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Police go in to end the siege at around 2.10 am this morning in Martin Place Sydney
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Police go in to end the siege at around 2.10 am this morning
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Armed tactical response officers enter the building after shots were fired
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Police and paramedics administer first aid after going in to end the siege at around 2.10 am this morning in Martin Place
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People run with their hands up from the Lindt Cafe
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Armed tactical response police stand watch into the evening near a cafe under siege by a gunman at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, on Monday. As the drama dragged into its 10th hour, police Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn said negotiators were talking with the gunman. Officials had no information to suggest anyone had been harmed, although a hospital said it was treating a man in satisfactory condition
Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP


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Siege in Martin Place, Sydney, on Monday evening: a woman inside the cafe moves to the door and turns off the lights
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Roadblocks around the siege in Martin Place
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A hostage runs to armed tactical response police officers for safety after she escaped from a cafe under siege at Martin Place. New South Wales police would not say what was happening inside the cafe or whether hostages were being held at the time
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Police are seen outside the Lindt Cafe
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Two hostages run to safety outside the Lindt Cafe
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Two hostages run to safety outside the Lindt Cafe, Martin Place in Sydney
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Two hostages run to safety outside the Lindt Cafe, Martin Place 
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Tactical police officers stand at the ready close to a cafe under siege at Martin Place in Sydney
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A hostage runs from the Lindt Chocolate cafe in Martin Place under cover of police
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A police officer runs across Martin Place near the Lindt cafe, where hostages are being held, in central Sydney
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Police officers position themselves at a corner near the Lindt Cafe in Martin Place, where hostages are being held
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An armed police officer runs along the street close to a cafe under siege at Martin Place
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Police confer near Martin Place
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Catherine Burn, the deputy commissioner of the NSW police specialist operations speaks to the media on Monday afternoon
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Armed police patrol near the Sydney Opera House
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Photographers, camera operators and reporters line up at the edge of the police exclusion zone in Martin Place
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Police officers on the scene of the siege at Lindt Cafe in Martin Place
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A heavily armed police officer walks near Lindt cafe, where hostages are being held, in Martin Place in central Sydney
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Published: 23 Dec 2014




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Sydney siege victims Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson mourned at memorial services

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Published: 22 Dec 2014




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Amirah Droudis faces a bid to revoke her bail pending her trial over the killing of Man Haron Monis’s former wife



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