Sydney: Andhrite escapade from Iranian militant

Monday morning Sydney woke up to the horrific incident of a gunman taking hostage of unknown number of people inside a cafe who displayed a black flag with Arabic script and speculations went ripe that he is a terrorist of ISIS. Armed police had to storm to the cafe and evacuate the whole area besides surrounding the cafe.

One of the hostages held in the cafe is learnt to be an Infosys employee and news went ripe that he belongs to Guntur district, one Ankireddy Vishwakant. There in Sydney, the gunman held the hostages for 16 long hours. Interim, 5 hostages escaped and news came out that two bombs were placed in the cafe and four more in the city.

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After trying for peace negotiations with the gunman, police opened fire and one by one the hostages emerged out of the cafe. A few of them were injured. Finally the police reclaimed the cafe from the gunman, an Iranian refugee. After a bit of confusion and ambiguity, finally the infosys employee, Vishwakanth was reported to be safe. At the end, after sixteen hours, police could bring the whole situation under control.

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Sridhar Raavi

Sridhar is a highly experienced hand in Telugu politics, writing and analyzing political happenings in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. An IT engineer turned news junkie, Sridhar has a sharp eye for catching news as it u…

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