Prime minister Anthony Albanese praises officers for their bravery
Local authorities urged residents to avoid the area, about 200 miles from Melbourne, as they search for the gunman. A third officer was wounded.
Two Australian police officers have been gunned down in an “execution” by a suspected sex offender who then took his wife and children hostage and fled into the bush, police said.
Manhunt under way for man accused of shooting dead two officers and wounding another in southeastern state of Victoria.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese pays tribute to bravery of slain officers, who were killed serving a warrant for historic sex offences
Two police officers are dead and a third is wounded after being shot in rural southeast Australia by a gunman still on the loose.
Two officers were killed and another injured in a shooting at a rural property in Victoria on Tuesday.
Authorities impose no-fly zone over Porepunkah after Dezi Freeman reportedly flees into dense bush