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 urge people to ‘avoid the area’ amid ‘active incident’ at Porepunkah, 300km north-east of Melbourne

Prime minister Anthony Albanese praises officers for their bravery

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.

La police australienne a lancé une vaste chasse à l’homme après une fusillade meurtrière dans une zone rurale de l’Etat de Victoria, et appelé la population à ne pas sortir…

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.

An armed 'sovereign citizen' has reportedly fled with his wife and kids after shooting dead two police officers and wounding another at a rural property in Porepunkah, 300km…

Manhunt under way for man accused of shooting dead two officers and wounding another in southeastern state of Victoria.

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.

A gunman suspected of killing two police officers branded cops 'frigging Nazis', 'Gestapo' and 'terrorist thugs' as he relentlessly targeted a female officer because she pulled…

Two officers were killed and another injured in a shooting at a rural property in Victoria on Tuesday.

Victoria police say alleged shooter remains on the run and armed after two officers killed and a third injured

SIDNEY, 27 AGO - E' caccia in Australia ad un uomo di 56 anni, pesantemente armato, accusato di aver sparato e ucciso due agenti di polizia e averne ferito un terzo. (ANSA)

SIDNEY, 27 AGO - E' caccia in Australia ad un uomo di 56 anni, pesantemente armato, accusato di aver sparato e ucciso due agenti di polizia e averne ferito un terzo. (ANSA)

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.