Armed police officers point as they stand at the ready close to a cafe under siege at Martin Place in Sydney, Australia, on Dec. 15, 2014. SYDNEY — Two more people have run out of a Sydney building where a hostage situation has been unfolding.
Both women appeared to be employees of the chocolate shop and cafe where the hostage situation has been ongoing since Monday morning. They were both wearing aprons bearing the cafe’s Lindt chocolate logo.
That brings to five the number of people who have emerged from the cafe since a gunman took an unknown number of people hostage there during the height of Monday morning rush hour.