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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Joe Hinchliffe

Wieambilla shootings labelled Australia’s first Christian terrorist attack

A screengrab of Gareth and Stacey Train in a video they recorded
Wieambilla shooters Stacey and Gareth Train carried out Australia’s first fundamentalist Christian terrorist attack, Queensland police have concluded. Photograph: Uploaded to a video sharing platform

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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