Wieambilla

Multiple police officers have reportedly been involved in a shooting incident at Wieambilla, about three hours west of Brisbane.

The sparsely populated area is home to several large properties and gas fields. It is understood a female officer, in her first year and only a few weeks out of the police academy, managed to flee the situation and help raise the alarm. Police said they were responding to an incident about 4pm at a property on Wains Road and were forced to impose a vast exclusion zone as it unfolded.

Sky News host Paul Murray says multiple police officers have been shot in an altercation with potentially two gunmen in the Western Downs in Queensland.

Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said a manhunt was underway for two offenders.

- Police Minister Mark Ryan said the Queensland Police Service "has lost two heroes". - Federal Liberal Party leader and former Queensland police officer Peter Dutton said the news was "deeply distressing". - Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the entire state would be in "shock and sadness". - It is believed Train and his brother were the men killed. - The shooting took place at a property on Wains Road at Wieambilla, about 300km west of Brisbane. The emergency declaration was lifted on Tuesday.

A major police investigation is underway following the deaths of multiple people including two police officers during a shooting incident in the Western.

The PSPA remains in place and a crime scene has been established at the property. A member of the public was also shot and declared deceased at the location. A siege situation ensued at the property and specialist police officers and PolAir responded.

Three people have been shot dead in a gunfight by special operations police following a manhunt for suspects in the execution-style murders of two police ...

“My condolences to all who are grieving tonight – Australia mourns with you.” “A member of the public was also shot and is deceased. The ages and identities of the two men and woman are not yet known. Tragically, while in attendance, two officers were shot and declared deceased at the scene. Another officer received a bullet graze and is receiving treatment in hospital. “Terrible scenes in Wieambilla and a heartbreaking day for the families and friends of the Queensland Police officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty,” he wrote. “This is a tragedy on so many levels and the thoughts of all of us are with the police family tonight,” Ryan said. It’s understood police attended the remote property at the request of NSW Police in relation to a missing person. The gunmen allegedly then started a bushfire in a bid to find her, but she was rescued by a 16-strong extraction team of police who also recovered the bodies of the two murdered officers, according to a police source. Three people have been shot dead in a gunfight by special operations police following a manhunt for suspects in the execution-style murders of two police officers and a neighbour in Queensland. Horrifyingly, two of the wounded police – a 29-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman – were seen to be approached by at least two shooters clad in military-style camouflage fatigues, and shot execution-style where they lay, according to the Australian. The dramatic shoot-out started after three people - including the two police officers in their 20s - were killed in a cold-blooded ambush at a man’s property in the western town of Darling Downs, about three hours west of Brisbane.

Queensland Police officers were responding to an urgent SOS from their NSW counterparts when they were ambushed and executed in cold blood at a remote ...

NAPLAN is an opportunity to learn and provides all schools in Australia with point-in-time assessment. Train worked at the school as recently as 2019, when it came in at number 25 in a ranking of Queensland’s best NAPLAN results for the year, recording the best primary school results in the Far North. According to the publication, Queensland Police had been asked to help in the search for Nathaniel Train, whose brother was believed to live at the Wains Rd property. It has since emerged that the officers were responding to a special request from NSW Police regarding a missing Dubbo man, The Queensland Police officers were responding to an urgent SOS from their NSW counterparts when they were ambushed and executed in cold blood at a remote property yesterday. A missing, “mild-mannered” former school principal was one of three suspects killed in a gunfight after two officers were executed at a Queensland property.

Police have shot dead three people after an ambush at a remote property on Queensland's Darling Downs in which two officers and a neighbour were killed.