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Two shot police officers and a gunman are on the run in the same small town where police were ambushed by paranoid conspiracy theorists, as a terrified resident reveals they saw “a bullet go right over me.”
- Police search for gunman after officers fired at
- Declaration of exclusion zone in the city of Tara in Queensland
- The city was the base of operations for police officers shot dead last year
Police are chasing a gunman after multiple shots are fired in a small town already linked with a horrific shooting tragedy.
Terrified residents in the town of Tara, which is west of Brisbane, said they heard multiple shots, with one saying he saw “a bullet go right over me”.
No injuries have been reported, but officers have cordoned off a section of town and called in a crack tactical response unit, which was involved in a deadly close-in shootout with prepper doomsday conspiracy theorists in December.
Officers are searching for a gunman after shots were reported at a police car that broke a window in the Queensland town of Tara.
The shots were fired at 3:30 p.m. and the exclusion zone was declared at 5:30 p.m., with the zone included Surat Development Rd, Day St, Benn St, Fry St and Milne St.
Residents who have not been evacuated from the exclusion zone have been told to stay home.
Local community representative David Maynard told Daily Mail Australia that one woman heard “four low-powered pistol shots from a .22 rifle” while another said she saw “a bullet go straight past me”.
Tara is being surrounded by police from Chinchilla, Dalby and other West Queensland stations.
After the shooting, police set up an exclusion zone in the town of Tara, Queensland.
The Queensland Emergency Response Task Force is about to land at Tara by helicopter from Brisbane.
Tara was the base of operations for officers Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold, who were shot on a nearby Wieambilla property in December.
A resulting shootout with Special Emergency Response Team officers led to the deaths of married couple Gareth Train, Stacey Train and Gareth’s brother Nathaniel Train, who fatally ambushed the two officers and injured two other police officers.
It is later revealed that the trio were doomsday preparers who believed in a mix of doomsday scenarios where the government tried to harm or control them.
Neighbor Alan Dare, who had come to help when he saw smoke coming from the property, was also killed by the trains before they were shot dead.
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