Two police officers and a civilian are killed and two other officers are injured when gunmen open fire at a remote property in
Wieambilla,
Queensland,
Australia, where police were investigating a missing person report. The three perpetrators are later killed by police.
(BBC News)(ABC News Australia)
Politics and elections
All members of
Belgium's Political Bureau of the
Walloon Parliament resign after a scandal concerning excessive public spending by parliamentary clerk Frédéric Janssens. Bureau President
Jean-Claude Marcourt, who had been criticized for taking part in a luxury 3-day trip to
Dubai for
€20,000 using public funds, had previously refused to be the only person to resign if all other members of the Bureau did not resign.
(RTBF)