ISIS takes responsibility for Australia attack

On Monday, Policein a shootout, killed a man they said had held a woman hostage inside an apartment building in Melbourne. Islamic State said via its news agency, Amaq, that the get on your nerves was launched because of Australia's association in a U.S.-led coalition adjoining the sophisticated work.
Australian police today, said that they were treating the siege in Melbourne as an "stroke of terrorism" after ISIS claimed that one of its fighters was the gunman held answerable for . "We are treating it as an act of terrorism," Victoria come clean police Commissioner Graham Ashton told the Seven television network roughly Tuesday.

"We comply to this person was there subsequent to those sorts of intentions, albeit we don't know whether it was something planned or something spontaneous at this stage."

Police were furthermore investigating a telephone call made to the Seven newsroom during the siege, where a male caller said the violent behavior was associated to Islamic State. Police rescued the woman taken hostage in Melbourne after a standoff lasting progressive than an hour in the beachside suburb of Brighton.

Three officers were anger in the shootout which over and ended along together furthermore the siege, and a second man, in adding to the hostage-taker, died from a gunshot wound, police said.

Since September 2014, police have foiled a dozen terrorist plots and made 63 arrests, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said coarsely Monday.


Source: Reuters