Australian Police Killings Deemed Terror Attack, Linked to ‘Christian Extremism’
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A supplied undated combined image obtained Dec.13, 2022 shows Constable Matthew Arnold (left) and Constable Rachel McCrow who were killed in an ambush at a remote Queensland property in Australia. 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 Queensland Police
The siege that claimed the lives of two police officers and an innocent bystander has been deemed a “religiously-motivated terrorist attack” by Queensland Police.
Deputy Police Commissioner Tracy Linford said the force combed through 190 statements and the lives of the Train family, with police concluding that the trio subscribed to the “Christian extremist ideology” while also conceding that they radicalised themselves in isolation.
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