‘Doesn’t have to be this way’: police pleaded with Wieambilla killers to surrender before final shootout
by Andrew Messenger from World news | The Guardian on (#6PSJY)
Radicalised Train family had intense motivation to kill police' and were highly prepared for shooting ambush, coronial inquest hears
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A team of police negotiators repeatedly urged three radicalised killers to surrender peacefully before they died in a final shootout, an inquest into the Wieambilla massacre has heard.
In audio played to the coroner's court on Wednesday, police can be heard pleading for the Train family to put down their weapons.
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