Man shot dead by Australian Police after threatening officers with knife

SYDNEY: A man threatened police officers with a knife in a police station was shot dead by police on Saturday night in Australia’s state of Queensland.

A Queensland police report issued on Sunday morning said that a 46-year-old man allegedly entered a police station in Kirwan, a suburb in Queensland’s City of Townsville, just after 10 p.m. local time Saturday, and threatened officers with a knife.

Police shot the man and immediately rendered first aid.

The man died a short time later, said the report.

-Xinhua