Members of the police bomb squad were called flats where a suspected terrorist had taken a woman hostage Julian Smith/AAP/ReutersA gunman who killed a man and took a woman hostage in a suspected terrorist attack at a block of flats in Melbourne has been shot dead by police. The attacker, named as Yacqub Khayre, had been on parole and was previously acquitted over a failed terror plot in 2009, police said. During the siege he said in a phone call with Australia’s Channel 7 news channel that “this is for IS [Islamic State]” and “this is for al-Qaeda”, while a woman screamed in the background. Isis has claimed responsibility for the siege, which is being treated as a terrorist attack. Yacqub Khayre arriving at court in 2010 JULIAN SMITH/REUTERSChannel 7 said the woman called their newsroom and said she was a hostage, at which point Khayre came onto the phone and claimed…

Source: The Times June 06, 2017 02:48 UTC