Sydney, Aug 14 (AFP\/APP): A gunman fired around five shots inside Canberra’s main airport Sunday, sending passengers fleeing but injuring no one before he was detained by Australian police.<\/p>\n
Images posted on social media showed a police officer restraining a man on the ground inside the terminal as the emergency alarm sounded in the capital’s main airport.<\/p>\n
Police said the man was taken into custody and was being held at a station in the city. A firearm was recovered, they added.<\/p>\n
The gunman entered the airport’s departures area in the early afternoon and sat close to the terminal’s large glass windows, detective acting superintendent Dave Craft told reporters outside the building.<\/p>\n
He added that the gunman waited five minutes before pulling out his firearm and “let off approximately five rounds”.<\/p>\n
The airport was evacuated and locked down, leading to the suspension of flights.<\/p>\n
But normal operations resumed after the airport was re-opened later in the day, though some flights had been cancelled.<\/p>\n
Craft said the crime scene indicated that the man had fired shots at the glass windows in the terminal.<\/p>\n
No shots were directed at passengers or staff, he said.<\/p>\n
Several apparent bullet impacts were visible on the glass front on the second floor of the airport, television images showed.<\/p>\n
A woman identified only as Helen was quoted as telling The Guardian newspaper that she saw a man “shooting into the air” not far from the check-in counter, describing him as being middle-aged and “clean cut”.<\/p>\n
After examining the airport’s closed-circuit television images, police said they believed the man had acted alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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