Lindht Cafe News Today

Do we know if there is any american involvement in this? >> reporter: doesnt appear there is, leland. this all transpired in relative terms fairly quickly. the white house has been silent since the images of the security forces in sydney storming that cafe were beamed live. of course they dont want, officials here are not going to want to get out in front of the australian officials in announcing what has occurred and taking credit for the situation albeit from our own reporting and others witho...

Stay happy and healthy in their own home. ♪ heather: it is a very busy morning here and a very busy morning, evening overnight in sydney, australia, where an attack took place at sort of a cafe in the central business district, part of sydney, australia. this ending about an hour and 15

They are now also needing treatment. one block away though, this is where it all unfolding. there are ambulances on site. the riot squad, tactical police officers, it was an eerily calm night until about, oh, half an hour ago, when gunshots rang out across the city. we saw a male hostage run from the lindht cafe, 2:06 local time, one hour another group of hostages raced from the cafe shortly after. there was then the sound of gunshots, one after the other, a spray of bullets. police moved into, ...

Australia, is stuart cohen. can you confirm if some of the people inside have died and who they were? >> reporter: well at this point, heather, police are not obviously confirming. these are multiple media outlets reporting that a couple of people have died. reportedly the hostage-taker, man haron monis is one of the people dead. there are no names released and no official con firmmation from police. obviously in pictures from the siege, several people were being, seen being carried from the sce...

Insane killer managed to get himself a, you know, a shotgun, my understanding that should have been banned. it pass part of the ban. leland: reporting has been it was a sawed off shotgun. after a couple massacres in australia, there was a massive gun control. a number of people turned in their weapons and didnt want them anymore. hailed by gun control advocates as the poster child for the way things should be. a number of folks said this is what should happen in the united states. ab, what does ...

Minutes or so ago. a man named sheikh man haron monis. entered a cafe, a chocolate cafe, people were fathering, getting drinks, holding 17 hostages for close to 15 hours and this scene playing out. leland: 3:00 in the morning there in sydney. youre looking at pictures around you can hear some of the explosions and gunfire as that siege ended. laura tunstall, australia yeahs channel 9, two people were killed. one of which was the hostage and one was the gunman himself. that is still very unconfir...

But again just in relative terms it doesnt seem that there was even time for the u.s. to scramble that kind of assistance together. the u.s. consulate in sydney is located about a block away from the lindt chocolat cafe where this crisis erupted. it was evacuated like other buildings in the martin square district. it remained closed. we got a message from the u.s. con so you sue late in sydney, advising all citizens it would remain closed on tuesday in sydney. all personnel at the consulate were...

When police stormed into this building and we heard gunfire. they launched stun grenadesunaids out of the side of the building there. which had hostages released in a couple of ways. we saw some this afternoon managed to escape. we heard shortly before the gun fire, six hostages came out of the building then. then there was this gunfire and stun grenades that went off. we saw a number of victims rushed to hospitals. we dont have any words exactly how many of the hostages were injured but i can c...

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