The deadly ambush that led to the execution of two Queensland police officers and an innocent neighbour on a remote property at Wieambilla last December has been declared an act of domestic terrorism.
Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Tracy Linford said that Nathaniel Train, his brother Gareth and sister-in-law Stacey “acted as an autonomous cell”, with the attack being “religiously motivated”.
The December 12 attack, which occurred some 290 kilometres northwest of Brisbane, resulted in the death of Constables Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29, along with Alan Dare.
Two other police officers, Constables Keeley Brough and Constable Randall Kirk, both 28, only narrowly survived the attack, with Brough becoming trapped in burning bushland as the trio tried to smoke her out.
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