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Returning to the Queensland shooting, and the state’s police commissioner has paid tribute to the two police officers who survived the siege – Constable Keeley Brough and Constable Randall Kirk.
“They bravely did what they could to save their colleagues in the most horrendous circumstances. Their bravery was beyond belief,” she said. “I will shortly meet with Keeley, and I know that she’s already talked people through what took place. And the people that I have spoken to cannot believe how she survived and what she did during that period of time.”Meanwhile, federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen is due to hold a press conference any minute now.Sarah Keoghan
“When you are in that scene walking towards the house and where this apparently took place, they were in an exposed area, and I cannot believe that two officers got out alive.”Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll has revealed the two police officers who lost their lives in yesterday’s siege had just begun their policing careers.
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