Ambushed Police Thankful to Survive Attack

A supplied undated image obtained Wednesday, December 14, 2022 shows Constable Randall Kirk after undergoing surgery to remove shrapnel and repair injuries sustained during the incident in Wiembilla, Queensland. Police have shot dead three people at a remote property on Queensland's Darling Downs after an ambush in which two officers and a bystander were killed. AAP Image/Supplied by the Queensland Police Union

A pair of junior Queensland police officers who survived a shooting ambush that claimed the lives of two fellow constables are grateful to be alive as investigators probe motives for the attack.

Constables Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29, along with 58-year-old resident Alan Dare, were killed in a hail of bullets at a rural property at Wieambulla in the western Darling Downs region on Monday.