Two police officers were killed in a shootout at a property in rural Australia, after what initially appeared to be a routine follow-up to a missing-person report turned into an ambush and a lengthy siege, Queensland police said Tuesday.
at Wieambilla to follow up on a request from New South Wales Police to check on a missing person.
The person, identified by authorities and Australian media as Nathaniel Train, 46, a former school principal in New South Wales, was reported missing a year earlier. He had been heard from sporadically, though contact had ceased in recent days, prompting the request from NSW Police, according to Carroll.Train was one of three people inside the property, according to authorities.
When the officers arrived, they were “inundated with gunfire,” Ian Leavers, the president of the Queensland Police Union,Two officers from the Tara Police Service — Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29 — were shot and died at the scene.
It is with a heavy heart we confirm the deaths of Constable Matthew Arnold and Constable Rachel McCrow.With Honour They Served.
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