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Manhunt under way for man accused of shooting dead two officers and wounding another in southeastern state of Victoria.<\/em><\/p>\n Police in Australia are searching for a gunman who shot dead two officers and wounded another at a rural property in the southeastern state of Victoria, authorities have said.<\/p>\n The shooting occurred shortly after 10:30am on Tuesday as 10 police officers were attending the property in Porepunkah, about 300km (186 miles) northeast of Melbourne, Victoria police said in a statement.<\/p>\n Police urged the public in and around Porepunkah to remain indoors until further notice, and asked people not to travel to the area.<\/p>\n \u201cThe exact circumstances surrounding the incident are still being determined and it remains an active and ongoing situation,\u201d Victoria police said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s believed the offender has since left the property and at this time his whereabouts are unknown. A significant search is actively underway to locate the man.\u201d<\/p>\n Local media, which named the suspect as Dezi Freeman, reported that the police officers had travelled to the property to execute a warrant relating to alleged historical sex offences.<\/p>\n Alex Caruana, president of the Australian Federal Police Association, expressed condolences to the families of the deceased officers.<\/p>\n \u201cPolicing is dangerous and unpredictable work, and what has happened in Porepunkah is a reminder of the risks officers face every day in keeping the community safe,\u201d Caruana said in a statement.<\/p>\n Gun deaths are relatively rare in Australia, which introduced tough restrictions on firearms in response to the 1996 Port Arthur mass shooting, which killed 35 people and injured 23 others.<\/p>\n The last time an Australian police officer was shot dead in the line of duty was November 2023, when Brevet Sergeant Jason Doig was killed while responding to a call at a property in South Australia, according to the National Police Memorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Manhunt under way for man accused of shooting dead two officers and wounding another in southeastern state of Victoria. Police in Australia are searching for a gunman who shot dead two officers and wounded another at a rural property in the southeastern state of Victoria, authorities have said. The shooting occurred shortly after 10:30am on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[346,2173,6599,9668,632,150,4490,1551,2942,3048],"class_list":{"0":"post-17893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-gunman","11":"tag-hunt","12":"tag-killed","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-officers","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-rural","17":"tag-town"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}