Police officer shot dead and another injured in South Australia

ABC NEWS (Australia)

A South Australian police officer has been shot dead and another has been injured at a property near the Victorian border. They were investigating an earlier incident when they were fired upon.

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00:00 A police officer has died in a shooting incident in the state's upper south east near the Victorian

00:07 border overnight.

00:09 Police were attending a property at Senior which is near Bordertown 270km south east

00:16 of Adelaide.

00:17 They got to the property just before 11.30 last night.

00:23 They were going there to investigate an earlier disturbance.

00:27 Exactly what that disturbance was, that's not yet been made public.

00:32 When police arrived at the scene they were confronted by an armed suspect.

00:37 A police officer received a fatal gunshot wound and despite the efforts of his colleagues

00:43 and paramedics he sadly died at the scene.

00:47 Two other people were shot in the incident.

00:50 One other person was a police officer.

00:55 That person received non-life threatening injuries.

00:59 The third person who was shot was the suspect.

01:02 He has received life threatening injuries.

01:05 Both people have been flown to Adelaide for treatment.

01:09 Police say that a third officer was at the scene.

01:12 They haven't been physically injured.

01:14 Major crime detectives were attending the scene today.

01:21 The police commissioner Grant Stevens is already in Bordertown.

01:26 Bordertown is a very tight knit community.

01:30 It's home to about 3 or 4 thousand people.

01:33 It's one of those small country towns where everybody knows one another.

01:39 This is going to be absolutely devastating not only for the town itself but also for

01:44 the police community.

01:45 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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