Two police officers were shot dead in an ambush outside a house in rural northeast Australia Monday, sparking an hours-long gun battle that ended with the deaths of all three suspected shooters, Queensland police said.
Police named the two slain officers as Constable Matthew Arnold, 29, and Constable Rachel McCrow, 26. A 58-year-old civilian bystander was also killed in the incident, police said. Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll on Tuesday said four police officers had gone to the remote property in Wieambilla, about 300 kilometers northwest of Brisbane, during a search for a missing person – later identified as 46-year-old Nathaniel Train, according to New South Wales authorities.
A police Special Emergency Response Team then exchanged fire with the suspects during a four-hour-long gun battle that ended with the deaths of the suspected shooters police said. “There was considerable weaponry involved in what took place,” Carroll said. Train, a former school principal who was declared missing by New South Wales Police on December 8, was one of the suspects shot dead, police said.
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