<br /> <p>Multiple gunshots were heard from an apartment block in Brighton on Monday, June 5, during a tense hostage situation.</p><p>The standoff on Monday night</a> resulted in the deaths of two people.</p><p>It was reported the hostage-taker, named as Somali-born Yacqub Khayre, had lured</a> a female sex worker to meet him at the Brighton apartment in the afternoon. He then took the woman hostage and shot a man dead</a>. When police arrived at the scene, the suspect began firing, injuring three officers.</p><p>Victoria Police, while they have not confirmed the man’s links to Islamic State, said they were treating it</a> as a “terrorism incident.”</p><br />
