Australian police conduct dramatic operation 4 days after Bondi attack

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Australian constabulary carried retired a melodramatic cognition successful a Sydney suburb connected Thursday, with heavy equipped officers successful tactical cogwheel reportedly ramming a car and astatine slightest concisely detaining respective men amid the ongoing investigation into the Sunday panic attack connected a Jewish vacation gathering astatine the city's Bondi Beach.

The New South Wales authorities constabulary unit said successful a statement that 2 cars were intercepted by tactical operations officers responding "to accusation received that a convulsive enactment was perchance being planned."

The cognition was conducted successful Sydney's southwest suburb of Liverpool, astir a fractional hr thrust distant from Bondi Beach. Police said they had "not identified immoderate transportation to the existent constabulary investigation of the Bondi panic attack."

Australian quality outlets NewsWire and The Australian paper said the intercepted men were believed to beryllium heading for Bondi from the metropolis of Melbourne, astir 550 miles distant successful Victoria state.

No arrests were announced, though photos from the country showed men sitting connected the crushed arsenic officers moved astir them. Police said 7 men were "assisting constabulary with their inquiries."

Police said determination was nary menace to the nationalist and the cognition had concluded.

NewsWire quoted an unnamed witnesser of the cognition arsenic saying it was "frightening to spot truthful galore constabulary with immense weapons successful the area" truthful soon aft the Bondi attack.

While constabulary said determination was nary contiguous nexus to the Bondi Beach shooting, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett said earlier Thursday greeting that much raids should beryllium expected successful the aftermath of the panic attack, successful which 2 gunmen killed 15 radical attending a solemnisation marking the archetypal time of Hanukkah.

"In the coming days, the New South Wales Joint Counter Terrorism Team volition execute further hunt warrants to enactment our investigation. There is simply a batch of worldly to beryllium examined, and the AFP continues to enactment with some home and planetary partners to physique a much implicit representation of the movements and who the alleged offenders had interaction with, some successful Australia and offshore," she said.