Six people including two officers have been shot and killed in a horror six-hour siege at a remote Australian property after police were ambushed while investigating reports of a missing person.
A team of four officers was sent to the home in remote Wieambilla, 160 miles west of , after reports that former primary school teacher Nathaniel Train was missing.
But the cops were met with gunfire when they arrived from three camouflaged and heavily armed suspects and a lengthy gunfight broke out.
Train, his brother Gareth and sister-in-law Stacey gunned down constables Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29, and also struck their innocent neighbour, Alan Dare, 58, who went to the home to investigate what was happening.
Constables Rachel McCrow, 29 (left) and Matthew Arnold, 26, (right) were shot dead during an ambush in Australia yesterday
McCrow, who was sworn in only last year, and Arnold were shot as they tried to climb over a locked fence and were met with a shower of bullets.
The killers moved on the injured police officers and shot them dead, point-blank while stealing their guns.
A third constable Randall Kirk, 28, was shot in the leg but escaped, while a fourth, Keely Brough, 28, fled into bushland before the heavily-armed killers set fire to the scrub in a bid to flush her out.
The terrified officer texted her loved ones telling them she felt her time was nearly up as she also called for backup.
All three killers were later shot dead by officers from Queensland Police’s Special Emergency Response Team.
One of the two surviving officers, Constable Keeley Brough (pictured) fled into surrounding bushland, where she texted family members in the belief she was going to die
A third officer, Constable Randall Kirk, 28, and a soon to be father-of-two, was shot in the leg but managed to escape.He is now recovering in hospital
Cop killer Nathaniel Train was once a beloved head teacher – but his mental health spiralled after he suffered a heart attack during a cheating row at his school
Officers are pictured at the scene of the horrific shootout yesterday in rural Australia
Train, his brother Gareth and sister-in-law Stacey ambushed the officers at the rural property (pictured) in Wieambilla in central Queensland
A team of four officers was sent to the home in remote Wieambilla, 160 miles west of Brisbane
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