オーストラリア最大都市シドニー中心部のカフェで12月15日、銃を持った男が客ら20数人を人質に取り立てこもった。
人質を取っていたのはマン・ハロン・モニス容疑者と15日夜判明した。武装した警官隊は、事件が発生してから15時間が経過した16日午前2時(日本時間同0時)ごろ、店内に突入し、銃撃戦となった。警察は、この事件で容疑者を含む男女3人が死亡、4人が負傷したと発表した。モニス容疑者と「イスラム国」との関係は明らかになっていない。
シドニーのビジネス街の中心地マーティンプレイスにある「Lindt Cafe」から、警官に向かって走りだす人質の1人 (Photo: SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images)
「Lindt Cafe」の外にいる武装警官(Photo by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)
2人の人質が走り寄って警官の背後に回る (Photo: WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images)
「Lindt Cafe」から脱出した人質が警官に走り寄る (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
「Lindt Cafe」から脱出した人質が警官に走り寄る (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
犯行現場付近を警戒する警官たち (Photo: WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images)
現場付近の人々を避難させる警官たち(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
武装警官が警察車両に近づく (Photo: WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images)
「Lindt Cafe」の入り口に立つ女性の人質(Photo: WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images)
シドニー立てこもり事件
Police Hostage Situation Developing In Sydney(01 of17)
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 16: People run with their hands up from the Lindt Cafe, Martin Place during a hostage standoff on December 16, 2014 in Sydney, Australia. Police stormed the Sydney cafe as a gunman has been holding hostages. (Photo by Joosep Martinson/Getty Images) (credit:Joosep Martinson via Getty Images)
Australia-Police Operation-Gallery(02 of17)
Hostages run to safety during a cafe siege in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. A swarm of heavily armed police stormed the cafe in the heart of downtown Sydney early Tuesday, ending a siege where a gunman had been holding 17 people hostage for more than 16 hours. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
AUSTRALIA-SEIGE-CONFLICT(03 of17)
An injured hostage (R) is carried out of a cafe in the central business district of Sydney on December 16, 2014. Police stormed the Sydney cafe where a gunman had taken hostages and displayed an Islamic flag, television footage showed early December 16. AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:PETER PARKS via Getty Images)
Police Hostage Situation Developing In Sydney(04 of17)
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 15: Police patrol the exclusion zone around Philip and Hunter Streets on December 15, 2014 in Sydney, Australia. Police attend a hostage situation at Lindt Cafe in Martin Place. (Photo by Don Arnold/Getty Images) (credit:Don Arnold via Getty Images)
NSW Police Hold A Press Conference In Relation To Sydney Hostage Incident(05 of17)
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 15: Catherine Burn, Deputy Commissioner of the Specialist Operations speaks to the media in relation to the Sydney hostage incident at Sydney Police Centre on December 15, 2014 in Sydney, Australia. Major landmarks in Sydney, including the Sydeny Opera House, have been evacuated as police respond to a hostage situation inside a Martin Place cafe. An armed man believed to be an Islamic terrorist is holding multiple people hostage at Lindt Chocolate Café. (Photo by Joosep Martinson/Getty Images) (credit:Joosep Martinson via Getty Images)
Australia Police Operation(06 of17)
Emergency personnel wheel an injured hostage to an ambulance during a cafe siege in the central business district of Sydney , Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. A swarm of heavily armed police stormed the cafe in the heart of downtown Sydney early Tuesday, ending a siege where a gunman had been holding an unknown number of people hostage for more than 16 hours. A police spokesman confirmed \"the operation is over,\" but would not release any further details about the fate of the gunman or his remaining captives. After a flurry of loud bangs, police swooped into the Lindt Chocolat Cafe shortly after five or six hostages were seen running from the building. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Australia-Police Operation-Gallery(07 of17)
Emergency response personnel, right, give treatment to an unidentified person after shots were fired and police entered the building during a cafe siege in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Australia-Police Operation-Gallery(08 of17)
Armed tactical response officers enter the building after shots were fired during a cafe siege in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Australia-Police Operation-Gallery(09 of17)
Armed police officers point as they stand at the ready close to a cafe under siege at Martin Place in Sydney, Australia, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. The standoff at the cafe left three people dead, including the gunman, and four others wounded. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
AUSTRALIA-SIEGE-CONFLICT(10 of17)
Two hostages (L) run for cover behind a policeman (R) during a hostage siege in the central business district of Sydney on December 15, 2014. Three people ran out of a Sydney cafe where a gunman has taken hostages and displayed an Islamic flag against the window, police said December 15, adding that no one has yet been harmed. AFP PHOTO/William WEST (Photo credit should read WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:WILLIAM WEST via Getty Images)
Cafe Workers Held Up In Martin Place Siege(11 of17)
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 15: (EUROPE AND AUSTRALASIA OUT) Police take hold of a hostage after she escaped during a siege at Martin Place in the CBD while hostages are held at gunpoint at the Lindt cafe in Sydney, New South Wales. (Photo by Chris McKeen/Newspix/Getty Images) (credit:Newspix via Getty Images)
Australia-Police Operation-Gallery(12 of17)
An armed police officer runs along the street close to a cafe under siege at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. Prime Minister Tony Abbott pledged on national television that the police response to the siege would be thorough for what he called âa deeply concerning incident.\" (AP Photo/Rob Griffith) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Australia Police Operation(13 of17)
A red tent is set up at the entrance of the Lindt near a makeshift memorial at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney Australia, Tuesday Dec. 16, 2014. Three people including a lone gunman who took siege in a Sydney CBD cafe are dead after a police action ended in the early ours of the morning. (AP/Photo/Steve Christo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Australia Police Operation(14 of17)
Employees of the Lindt Cafe pay tribute to colleagues who lost their lives following the shootings, at a makeshift memorial at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney Australia, Tuesday Dec. 16, 2014. Three people including a lone gunman who took siege in a Sydney CBD cafe are dead after a police action ended in the early ours of the morning(AP/Photo/Steve Christo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Australia-Police Operation-Gallery(15 of17)
This image taken from video shows hostages holding up their hands inside a cafe in Sydney, Australia Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. Local media identified the gunman during the siege as Iranian-born Man Haron Monis, who once was prosecuted for sending offensive letters to families of Australian troops killed in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Channel 7 via AP Video) AUSTRALIA OUT (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Australia-Police Operation-Gallery(16 of17)
This image taken from video shows a man believed to be the gunman, Man Haron Monis, inside a cafe in Sydney, Australia Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Monis had \"a long history of violent crime, infatuation with extremism and mental instability.\"(AP Photo/Channel 7 via AP Video) AUSTRALIA OUT (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Australia Police Operation(17 of17)
People lay flowers to pay respect to the shooting victims at a makeshift memorial at Martin Place in Sydney\'s Martin Place, Sydney Australia. Tuesday Dec. 16, 2014. Three people including a lone gunman who took siege in a Sydney CBD cafe are dead after a police action ended in the early hours of the morning. (AP/Photo/Steve Christo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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