Australia news live: fire danger warnings in Queensland as crews battle Moreton Island blaze
Australia news live: fire danger warnings in Queensland as crews battle Moreton Island blaze
Earlier, we brought you the news of the final station in the Melbourne Metro Tunnel, State Library station, being completed. Here’s a peek at what it looks like.
‘I heard a bang-bang-bang on the left side of the car,’ Sydney shooting eyewitness says
A taxi driver, who was an eyewitness to the shooting in Croydon Park, has described his experience to the ABC:
I was just happened to be driving by, and as I was driving by, I just heard a bang-bang-bang on the left side of the car, the taxi. And then I looked next to me, and I saw a couple of holes through the window right next to – on the passenger side. And I didn’t realise there was actually a hole on the roof as well. And I smelled the gunpowder, but I assumed because it was [NRL] Grand Final night, [it was] somebody throwing firecrackers or something.
Police say Sydney shooting ‘incredibly concerning’ but they do not suspect terrorism
The shooting in Sydney’s Croydon Park overnight was “incredibly concerning” and it was lucky more people weren’t hurt, the acting assistant commissioner for New South Wales Police, Trent King, has said.
A 60-year-old man allegedly used a longarm rifle to fire “at least 50” bullets from a residence above a shop on Sunday night. In addition to the man in his 50s who had been taken to hospital with a gunshot wound and remained in a serious condition, King said up to 16 other people had received minor injuries “from glass shattering and other shrapnel as a result of the shots being fired”.
King told ABC RN:
It’s unprecedented for Sydney to have something like this, with such a large number of shots fired. And we’re very fortunate that we didn’t have more damage and certainly more injuries or indeed fatalities.
Police who initially attended the incident were also allegedly fired upon, King said, and a large tactical response including highway patrol, the air wing and dog unit were called in, set up a perimeter and “initiated tactical response to the active shooting”.
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