Missing Children Found Safe After Their Fugitive Father Who Hid in the Wilderness for 4 Years is Shot by Police

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A fugitive father from New Zealand who has been on the run with his three children for nearly four years died in a police shoot-out on Monday, Sept. 8

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00:00As I said, it's with a great sense of relief that we have relocated those children

00:04and they are now going to receive the care that they need.

00:30Knowing the information that we had previously had, that had seen Tom Phillips also in this

00:46area, additional staff were called out and responded to that location.

00:53Soon after, a second patrol unit arrived and has engaged the offender and he has died at

01:02the scene.

01:03Soon after 4.30pm today, we've located Tom Phillips' remaining children.

01:10They've been found in a campsite not far from here, further up the Tianga Road and they are

01:17with police officers now and being removed from that location.

01:21We have notified the mother and Tom Phillips' parents as well.

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