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Local authorities urged residents to avoid the area, about 200 miles from Melbourne, as they search for the gunman. A third officer was wounded.
By Francesca Regalado
The police in Australia launched a manhunt on Tuesday after a gunman killed two police officers, a rare fatal shooting in a country with strict gun control laws.
Ten police officers arrived at a property in Porepunkah on Tuesday morning, where two officers were fatally shot and another seriously injured, Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush said in a video statement.
