http://www.lbnelert.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/390-sydney-1215-300x184.jpgCAPTIVES ESCAPE SYDNEY SIEGE: Five escape hours after gunman takes up to 15 hostage at Sydney cafe in reported terrorist attack. A gunman, identified by local media as 49-year-old Iranian refugee Man Monis, holding hostages at the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in downtown Sydney Monday demanded a meeting with Australian Prime Minster Tony Abbott and an Islamic State flag. Five people managed to escape six hours into the standoff, but police remain cautious after a report that the gunman has four bombs planted in the building and financial district. The nearby U.S. Consulate was evacuated, and an NYPD spokesman said city police are ‘monitoring the situation in Sydney.’

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