7 June 2017 10:14 am
SYDNEY REUTERS June 6
Australian police said on Tuesday they were treating a siege in Melbourne as an “act of terrorism” after a claim by Islamic State that one of its fighters was the gunman responsible. Police on Monday killed in a shootout the man they said had held a woman hostage inside an apartment
“We are treating it as an act of terrorism,” Victoria state police Commissioner Graham Ashton told the Seven television network on Tuesday. “We believe this person was there with those sorts of intentions, albeit we don’t know whether it was something planned or something spontaneous at this stage.”