Police, within the last few minutes, have rescued a woman and a teenage girl from a house in Earnshaw Road, Banyo. Police remain at the scene and the incident is on-going. Police wish to thank the public for their on-going patience and assistance in relation to this incident. The emergency situation under the Public Safety […]
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Police have declared an emergency situation under the Public Safety Preservation Act (PSPA) at Banyo this afternoon. The emergency situation was declared at 11.45am as police respond incident inside a house at an Earnshaw Street address. Police including specialist officers and negotiators are on-scene. The area declared is bounded by St Vincents, Red Hill, Earnshaw, […]
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Phase Two of the Queensland Christmas Road Safety Campaign continued during Christmas Day yesterday, coinciding with the national road safety operation, Operation Crossroads. The Queensland Christmas Road Safety Campaign runs from Monday 23 December, 2013 to Friday, 3 January 2014. During the Christmas holiday period, the QPS will be out in force specifically targeting the […]
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Police have charged a 47-year-old local woman with unlawful wounding after officers investigated a disturbance in which a 23-year-old man sustained a stab wound to his chest. Preliminary information indicates that a man and woman were involved in an altercation at a Muttich Street address around 9am yesterday morning, during which time the man was injured. […]
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Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was seriously injured in a single vehicle traffic crash near Winton earlier today. The crash occurred after 9am on the Landsborough Highway about 20km from Winton. Initial investigations indicate the car, a blue hatchback, left the roadway and rolled. A 24-year-old woman sustained life threatening injuries. A […]
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Police and emergency services are currently at the scene of a house fire at Oxley. The fire at the Oakmont Avenue home was reported to police around 5.40pm. One person has died and two others are expected to be taken to hospital. Investigations are continuing. There is no further information available at this time. If […]
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The Child Abduction Alert issued last night for two children taken from Loganlea has been cancelled. Police have conducted extensive inquiries both in Queensland and New South Wales (NSW) with reported sightings today of the vehicle, the man and the children, in northern NSW. After receiving information from the public police concerns regarding the safety […]
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Police are appealing for public assistance after a building at a Nerang school was extensively damaged by water last week. Sometime between December 19 and December 20 a hose has been turned on in the upper level of C Block of the Gilston Road school which resulted in severe flooding. Extensive structural damage occurred, including […]
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A 38-year-old woman working the Christmas shift at a Woodridge petrol station this morning was held-up by a woman wielding a knife. Around 5.30am a women entered the Compton Road business, threatening two employees, including the female console operator, before fleeing on foot with a sum of cash. The woman is described as possibly aged […]
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UPDATE – the child abduction alert has now been cancelled. The Queensland Police Service are still seeking urgent public assistance to help locate two boys aged 3 and 4 who may be at risk after they were taken from Errol Street Loganlea around 3.30pm yesterday. The children were taken by a 30-year-old man driving a […]
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