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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Supunqw" data-source="post: 17566487" data-attributes="member: 225222">Sydney siege ends: Police storm cafe Police stormed a Sydney cafe early Tuesday Australian time,  apparently ending a dramatic hostage crisis that had dragged on for more  than 16 hours. Live TV appeared to show hostages running from the  downtown cafe where the crisis took place. Police then appeared to  storm the building. After the police moved in, one weeping woman was  helped out by the officers and at least two other people were wheeled  out on stretchers. It was not clear how many people were injured. CNN  reported that two people died in the final shootout, but did not say if  the dead were hostages. Earlier, the lone gunman had issued  demands and claimed to have bombs scattered around the city, multiple  media outlets reported. The gunman had released videos, through  some hostages, stating that he wanted an Islamic State flag and a phone  call from Australian prime minister Tony Abbott. He also made bomb  threats, media outlets including Sky News Australia were reporting. Hundreds  of heavily armed police officers, many in sniper positions, had taken  control of the streets around the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in Martin Place,  the heart of the city's financial and shopping district. Five  hostages were able to flee to safety in the first several hours of the  standoff. An undisclosed number of hostages remained in the cafe until  the fiery resolution, police said. Sky News and other media  outlets, citing police, identified the suspect as Man Haron Monis, 49,  an Iranian-born, self-proclaimed spiritual healer with a lengthy  criminal record who is currently free on bail. "We are doing all we can to set you free,"   New South Wales state police Commissioner Andrew Scipione had said at a  press conference hours after the crisis began. The incident began at  around 9:45 a.m Monday local time. Sydney is 16 hours ahead of New York.        At least five people were seen fleeing from the cafe in Sydney,  Australia, where a gunman is holding a group of people hostage. (Dec.  15)     Associated Press Australian  media footage had showed people in the cafe, apparently hostages  holding up a black flag with Arabic writing on it reading, "There is no  God but God and Mohammed is the prophet of God." <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/12/14/sydney-hostages/20411269/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/9065941e142eb769bb76794c742e08d1e14ee558/r=300/http/www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/4a040fb53a72bceab9dc8bdbc00446d50dd55f0d/r=300/http/videos.usatoday.net/Brightcove2/29906170001/2014/12/29906170001_3941726393001_thumb-newslook781189.jpg?pubId=29906170001" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>   Three  people ran out of the cafe six hours into the hostage crisis. About an  hour later, two women wearing aprons with the Lindt chocolate logo fled  the cafe into the arms of heavily armed police officers. Kathryn  Chee, who works at the cafe, told ABC News she had planned to arrive at  work early when her mother told her the news of the incident. She said she saw pictures on TV of hostages with their hands against the windows. "Straight  away, there were three people that I knew....my heart just sank," she  said. 'It's just a little cafe, we have regular customers, people we  know their orders…we're already making their order before they get to  the counter." Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott urged Australians to go about their business as usual in a speech from Canberra on Monday. "Our thoughts and prayers must above all go out to the individuals who are caught up in this," he said. He earlier said the events may be "politically motivated.'' New South Wales Police Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn earlier said negotiators talked with the gunman for several hours. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the gunman  forced hostages to call multiple media outlets to outline his demands,  and that the hostages also posted his demands on their social media  accounts. Police had asked that media outlets do not report the gunman's demands, but the information circulated quickly. The  standoff gripped downtown Sydney, shutting down government offices,  public transit and schools as it dragged through the day. The normally  busy and crowded business district of the city was on virtual lockdown. Seven  Network television news staff watched the gunman and hostages for hours  from a fourth floor window of their Sydney offices, opposite the cafe. The  gunman could be seen pacing back and forth past the cafe's four  windows. Reporter Chris Reason said he carried what appeared to be a  pump-action shotgun, was unshaven and wore a white shirt and a black  cap. Network staff counted about 15 different faces among hostages forced up against the windows. <img src="http://videos.usatoday.net/Brightcove2/29906170001/2014/12/29906170001_3941996953001_thumb-newslook781221.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />         Australian Police an authorities release information about an  ongoing hostage situation in a cafe in Sydney. Julie Noce reports. Video provided by Reuters     Newslook St.  Vincent's hospital spokesman David Faktor said a male hostage was in  satisfactory condition in the hospital's emergency department. He was  the only one of the first five freed hostages to be taken to a hospital,  and Scipione said he was being treated for a pre-existing condition.  Police said they had no information to suggest any hostages had been  hurt. Australia raised its terror warning level in September in  response to a domestic threat posed by supporters of the Islamic State  group. At the time, one man arrested during a series of raids in Sydney  was charged with conspiring with an Islamic State leader in Syria to  behead a random person in downtown Sydney. Meanwhile in Belgium on  Monday, police detained three men after reports of a hostage taking in  an apartment building in the western city of Ghent. No one was injured  in the incident. Federal police spokeswoman Annemie Serlippens  excluded any political or terror motive. Police, who blocked off a wide  perimeter around the area, said it was still unclear whether they had  taken any hostages. </blockquote>

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