{"id":273351,"date":"2025-08-26T15:38:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=273351"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:38:29","slug":"two-police-officers-shot-dead-at-rural-property-in-porepunkah-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=273351","title":{"rendered":"Two police officers shot dead at rural property in Porepunkah, Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two police officers have been shot dead at a rural property in northeast Victoria<\/a> with the armed suspect reportedly taking his family hostage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incident happened when police were executing a search warrant for a firearms prohibition order at an address on Rayner Track in Porepunkah, near Bright, on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Porepunkah is a town in northeast Victoria, Australia on the Great Alpine Road, at the foot of Mount Buffalo 320 kilometres northeast of the state capital, Melbourne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is understood the officers were searching an abandoned bus at the property when they were shot at by a man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two officers were killed while a third was shot in the leg and critically injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The alleged gunman has reportedly taken his wife and at least two children into the bush near his home and is holding them hostage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is believed he is armed with at least one of the police officer\u2019s firearms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special Operations Group officers are heading to the scene and police choppers are circling the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Porepunkah Primary School has been placed into lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is still an active incident and we will provide more information when it\u2019s operationally safe to do so,\u201d Victoria Police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The armed suspect is still on the run and has reportedly taken his wife and children hostage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":273354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6407],"tags":[8912,17883,8],"class_list":["post-273351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-police-incident","tag-bright","tag-porepunkah","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t