With two hostages and gunman dead, grim investigation starts in Sydney

By Michael Pearson, Jethro Mullen and Anna Coren, CNN
Updated 10:27 PM ET, Mon December 15, 2014













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Story highlights

  • The hostages who died are identified as Katrina Dawson and Tori Johnson
  • All of those injured are described by police in stable condition
  • "It will take time to clarify exactly what happened ... and why," PM says
  • The gunman's social media postings reflect a radical Sunni extremist theology



The deadly siege of a central Sydney cafe has ended but the investigation is just beginning.
Australian authorities stormed the cafe where a self-styled Muslim cleric had been holding hostages early Tuesday, killing the gunman. They moved in some 16 hours after the siege began, after hearing gunfire inside the Lindt Chocolate Cafe, New South Wales police Commissioner Andrew P. Scipione told reporters.

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