Prime minister Anthony Albanese praises officers for their bravery
Police urge people to ‘avoid the area’ amid ‘active incident’ at Porepunkah, 300km north-east of Melbourne
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.
Police say a "heavily armed" male suspect managed to escape into the bush after the shooting in Victoria state.
Two police officers have been killed and another wounded at a shooting in the regional Victorian town of Porepunkah, about 300km north-east of Melbourne
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.
Police say man suspected of shooting dead two officers knows Victorian high country bushland ‘better than us’, as tributes paid to officers killed
As 10 officers made their way up a Porepunkah drive, they were being watched. Soon, two were dead
Australian police on Wednesday identified the gunman accused of killing two police officers and injuring a third a day prior as the manhunt for the suspect continued.
Authorities impose no-fly zone over Porepunkah after Dezi Freeman reportedly flees into dense bush