One other poster said one gunman had on a vest (bomb), so I guess there are other bombs (devices) in other places....and one person said someone involved in terrorism was arrested in Australia earlier today, did you hear that or is that maybe just speculation.....
Now Fox has it at 13 hostages instead of the 20 they said earlier.
Sidney News7 mentioned a anti-terror arrest occurred this morning prior to hostage taking..
An Aussie muslim was arrested on terrorist charges earlier. plus there have been recent raids on terrorist suspects.
“This morning a Sydney man was taken into custody on suspicion of terrorism related offences after a morning raid from counter terrorism units of the Australian Federal Police and NSW Police.
AFP confirmed a 25-year-old Beecroft man was arrested by NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) as part of continuing investigations into the planning of a terrorist attack on Australian soil and the facilitation of travel of Australian citizens to Syria to engage in armed combat.”
So this guy or guys in the chocolate shop are planning to kill someone or kill themselves or both….they know full well that their actions will lead to jail or death, even if they surrender to the police.
Keeping fingers crossed, praying that hostages will be released.