Constable Keeley Brough called for backup and told loved ones she thought she would die as her attackers tried to burn her alive.
First, as bullets hurled into the soil around her, Constable Keely Brough feared she’d be shot dead.
Desperate, she reached for her phone and called for backup. Then she sent goodbye texts to her family. The union president said even as Brough lay on the ground believing she was about to die, “she never stopped trying to do the right thing and communicate with her colleagues”. Authorities said a siege situation ensued at the property until late on Monday – it took 16 officers to retrieve the bodies of their colleagues – and specialist police officers and PolAir responded.Speaking through tears, Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll said the pair “bravely did what they could to save their colleagues in the most horrendous circumstances”.