Tag: Australian police

Pokemon Go players held at gunpoint in Australia park

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — A couple playing Pokemon Go were threatened at gunpoint in a town park south of Sydney, Australian police said Friday, as they blamed the game for a wave of crimes, traffic violations and complaints. Two masked men carrying a rifle held up the couple who had gone to the park in the small town Wednesday night to search for virtual “pocket monsters”. The would-be robbers fled empty handed and New South […]

Bullets hit bystanders as Australia police shoot knifeman

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Three elderly bystanders were wounded Thursday when Australian police opened fire on a man wielding a large carving knife in a busy Sydney shopping center, authorities said. The incident unfolded at the Hornsby Organic Food Markets in the city’s north with police confronting the man, reported missing from a psychiatric centre, after being alerted by staff. Witnesses said two officers asked him to drop the knife and when he failed to […]