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Inquest into Sydney cafe siege commences─── 07:19 Thu, 29 Jan 2015
Sydney - The start of an inquest into the Sydney cafe siege has heard that hostage Katrina Dawson was killed by fragments from a police bullet or bullets.
The inquest heard that another hostage, Tori Johnson, was killed by a bullet to the head from gunman Man Haron Monis that sparked the police raid on the Lindt Chocolat Cafe last month in which Dawson and Monis also died.
The inquest is seeking to establish exactly how the three died and whether their deaths could have been avoided.
Monis took 18 people hostage at the cafe in Martin Place in central Sydney on 16 December, holding them for more than 17 hours.
It led to a shutdown of a large part of the city centre and the biggest anti-terrorism operation in Australia's history.
BBC
