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Allanah Sciberras

Robust risk assessment carried out before cops killed

Police say a robust risk assessment was carried out before officers entered the property. (Simon Dallinger/AAP PHOTOS)

The fatal shooting of two police officers who were ambushed while executing a search warrant has drawn comparisons to a deadly rural siege.

A 59-year-old detective and a 35-year-old senior constable were killed and another detective wounded when a man shot at them on a property in Porepunkah, about 300km northeast of Melbourne.

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