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Live blog: Aussie PM speaks on Sydney siege

Police on Tuesday stormed the Sydney cafe where a gunman had been holding a 17 people hostage for more than 15 hours, Reuters reports.

There were also reports that the hostage-taker was one of three the people killed at the end of the siege.

Police have identified the hostage-taker at the center to a tense siege in a central Sydney cafe as Iranian Man Haron Monis.

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