By KRISTEN GELINEAU, Associated Press
SYDNEY — Sydney police say three people have died, including the gunman, during a hostage crisis that ended when officers stormed a downtown cafe.
An injured hostage is wheeled to an ambulance after shots were fired during a cafe siege at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. New South Wales state police would not say what was happening inside the cafe or whether hostages were being held. But television footage shot through the cafe’s windows showed several people with their arms in the air.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
Police said the gunman was killed in a confrontation with police early Tuesday morning. They said in a statement that a 34-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman also died. Four other people were injured.
Police said an investigation is underway because police were involved in an incident in which people died.
Heavily armed police stormed the cafe in the heart of Sydney, ending a siege by an Iranian-born gunman who had held an unknown number of hostages for more than 16 hours.
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