That’s a good question.
The biggest question is how many are involved across the city? There were earlier reports about “devices” being placed across the city.
Its been about 5 hours since the hostages were taken, the Sydney news I am watching now says it started about 9:45 AM Monday morning...they are about a day ahead of US. When the man entered the Café carrying a blue backpack.
Someone else who worked there said there were 13-14 employees, and about 30 customers, who were hostages.