Australian Police do Underway Operation at West Sydney
Australian Police do Underway Operation at West Sydney
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SYDNEY - A police operation was underway at a police station in a suburb in the west of Sydney, Australia's largest city. As Emergency services said on Tuesday, at least one person had been shot.
A police spokeswoman said an operation was underway at the station in Quakers Hill, a suburb 40 km or 25 miles west of the city's central business district. No further details were available immediately.
Australia is on heightened alert for attacks by home grown militants. Authorities say they have thwarted a number of potential attacks, although there have been several "lone wolf" assaults in recent months.
An accountant working for the New South Wales state police was killed when a 15 year old boy opened fire outside police headquarters in the suburb of Parramatta, also in Sydney's west, in October last year. The teenager, Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, was killed in a subsequent gunfight with police.
A police spokeswoman said an operation was underway at the station in Quakers Hill, a suburb 40 km or 25 miles west of the city's central business district. No further details were available immediately.
Australia is on heightened alert for attacks by home grown militants. Authorities say they have thwarted a number of potential attacks, although there have been several "lone wolf" assaults in recent months.
An accountant working for the New South Wales state police was killed when a 15 year old boy opened fire outside police headquarters in the suburb of Parramatta, also in Sydney's west, in October last year. The teenager, Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, was killed in a subsequent gunfight with police.
(rnz)
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