After killing a man, injuring two Victorian Police officers and taking a woman hostage

Quand

5 juin 2017

Type

Événement

Coordonnées

37.91° S, 145.01° E

Placé à : coordinates of the event it links, 2017 Brighton siege.

After killing a man, injuring two Victorian Police officers and taking a woman hostage, Yacqub Khayre is shot dead by Victorian Police in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton. ISIS went on to claim responsibility for the siege. Khayre had previously been charged and acquitted for the Holsworthy Barracks terror plot in 2009.

Terror hostage-taking in 2017 in Melbourne, Australia

On 5 June 2017, Yacqub Khayre, a 29-year-old Somali-born Australian, murdered a receptionist and held a sex worker hostage at the Buckingham International Serviced Apartments, located in Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. In a subsequent shoot-out with a police tactical unit, Khayre was killed and three police officers were wounded. Police consider the siege an act of terrorism.

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