• A file picture of hostage-taker Man Haron Monis. Dean Lewins/ EPA
    A file picture of hostage-taker Man Haron Monis. Dean Lewins/ EPA
  • Hostages run with there hands up as they flee from the Lindt Cafe, Martin Place on December 15, 2014 in Sydney, Australia. Joosep Martinson/Getty Images
    Hostages run with there hands up as they flee from the Lindt Cafe, Martin Place on December 15, 2014 in Sydney, Australia. Joosep Martinson/Getty Images
  • An injured hostage, right, is carried out of a cafe in the central business district of Sydney on December 16, 2014. Peter Parks/AFP Photo
    An injured hostage, right, is carried out of a cafe in the central business district of Sydney on December 16, 2014. Peter Parks/AFP Photo
  • This image taken from video shows people holding up their hands inside the cafe in Sydney, Australia on Monday. A gunman took an unknown number of people hostage inside the downtown Sydney chocolate shop and cafe at the height of Monday morning rush hour, with two people inside the cafe seen holding up a flag believed to contain an Islamic declaration of faith. AP Photo / Channel 7 via AP Video
    This image taken from video shows people holding up their hands inside the cafe in Sydney, Australia on Monday. A gunman took an unknown number of people hostage inside the downtown Sydney chocolate shop and cafe at the height of Monday morning rush hour, with two people inside the cafe seen holding up a flag believed to contain an Islamic declaration of faith. AP Photo / Channel 7 via AP Video

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Sydney siege ends as police storm cafe - in pictures

Rob Gurdebeke

December 15, 2014

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Three people including the gunman and two of his hostages were killed in a rescue operation when police swooped into the Lindt cafe shortly after five or six hostages were seen running out of the building. The attacker, identified as Iranian-born Man Haron Monis, was a “self-styled sheikh” with a history of violent offences and who was on bail on charges of being an accessory in his ex-wife’s murder.

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