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And friends, stands with them. they stand beside me today. i will stand beside you tomorrow. i will stand beside you forever. that was new south wales premier mike baird moments ago with details about the deadly standoff in sydney. here s what we know right now. all 17 hostages that were being held inside sydney s downtown lin lindt cafe have been accounted for, two are dead and the others are uninjured. the lone gunman identified as iranian man haron monis was shot and killed in the raid. the man who called himself a cleric was well known to police. police say they stormed the premises after a number of gunshots were heard inside the building. one officer suffered nonlife-threatening injuries. police did not find any explosive devices. ....
This was an isolated incident. it is an isolated incident. do not let this sort of incident bring about any loss of confidence about working or visiting in our city. hello, i m joy reid and this is the reid report. we begin on this monday with breaking news. officials in sydney, australia, have wrapped up a news conference following the dramatic end to a 16-hour standoff. officials confirmed there were 17 hostages, 2 were killed, as a result of, quote, actions inside a cafe. officials confirmed the gunman was shot and killed when he stormed the lindt chocolate cafe in downtown sid sni. a number of hostages were taken out on stretches and transported to ambulances to a range of sydney hospitals. earlier as we watched the tense standoff play out on tv, several hostages were able to escape on foot. let s bring in qutd daily bea t ....
Followed by a few other people. as i said, at least six people. and the police shortly after went in. there was gunfire or some sort of explosives. you could see pops of light coming out of the front window of the cafe. and probably transpired for probably another 15 to 20 seconds. there was a second wave, again, with gunfire. and, again, at that point ambulances rushed to the scene and paramedics began taking out some of the hostages on gurneys. thank you very much to courtney from the daily beast. for more on the gunman we re joined by nbc s jim massceda. ....
Contributor courtney who lives in sydney. yes, i m here. after how long did police finally go into that cafe which i understand is in the downtown financial district of sydney. it was located in sydney s central as to the situation, it escalated fairly quickly just after 2:00 in the morning when ....
Everyone had gone home. it s still unclear if this is something that was an operation or if they were responding to something that happened inside, but it certainly was the right time to go in considering the rest of the district was completely dead. do we know how many do we know how many hostages were initially taken? they still have not confirmed how many hostages were initially taken. five did escape yesterday. there are reports of up to at least six that were able to escape just before the police stormed the cafe. we re now learning but we re still unsure. tell us a little about the raid and sort of how it played out. sure. again, it escalated very quickly. the media was reporting images of a man running out of the cafe ....