Man shot dead by police during siege in Daisy Hill, Victoria

A man has died after being shot by police during an exchange of gunfire in the tiny Victorian town of Daisy Hill in the Central Goldfields.

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00:00Police say that officers were first alerted to this incident following reports that a

00:08man had discharged a firearm just before three o'clock yesterday afternoon at Menzies Drive

00:14in the tiny central Goldfields town of Daisy Hill, which is about 100 kilometres from Melbourne

00:21CBD and it is northwest of Ballarat, as you've mentioned.

00:25Now officers tried to negotiate with this man, but it became apparent that a siege situation

00:31was quickly unfolding and so they called in additional assistance from the special operations

00:39group as well as the critical incident response team and also the dog squad and this standoff

00:46lasted for several hours until just before 10 o'clock when police say that this man fired

00:53shots at officers and police then returned fire and this man was shot dead.

00:59They say that he died at the scene, he's yet to be formally identified and they say that

01:06nobody else was hurt in this incident.

01:10Homicide squad detectives will now investigate this case with oversight from Professional

01:15Standards Command, which is the usual protocol for fatal police shootings.

01:20Police say that any witnesses or anybody who has any information about this case should

01:26contact them.