Wieambilla shootings labelled Australia’s first Christian terrorist attack

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Police have labelled last year’s shooting of two police officers and a neighbour in the Queensland town of Wieambilla as Australia’s first fundamentalist Christian terrorist attack.

In December, four junior officers who tried to enter the property of Gareth, Nathaniel and Stacey Train for what police described as a routine missing person check were instead met with a hail of bullets, killing two, sending one running for his life with a bullet wound and the fourth hiding in long grass that her assailants set ablaze.

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