Australian police Monday shot dead a man who had taken a woman hostage in a Melbourne apartment and said they were investigating whether the incident was terror-related. Authorities have yet to determine whether the incident in the affluent beach-side suburb was terrorism-related but Victoria state police said it was one line of inquiry. “We do have our counter-terrorism command working on it with our crime department investigators,” deputy police commissioner Andrew Crisp told reporters Monday night. “It’s early days and it’s one line of inquiry.”Australian officials are growing increasingly concerned at the threat of militant attacks. Officials say they have prevented 12 such attacks on home soil since the threat level was raised in September 2014, with 61 people charged.

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 05, 2017 12:45 UTC