SBS news bulletin - 17/12/2022

Source: SBS / SBS Ukrainian

A vigil was held in the Queensland town of Chinchilla overnight to honour two police constables and an innocent bystander who were killed in an ambush by armed assailants. Constables Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29, and resident Alan Dare, 58, were gunned down at a rural property at Wieambilla, between the towns of Tara and Chinchilla, on Monday. The killers - Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey Train - died in a subsequent firefight with heavily armed tactical officers.

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