Some residents in a Gold Coast suburb have been forced to sleep in their cars overnight amid a standoff between police and two wanted men.
she was concerned about her mother who was locked inside her home as police cordoned off the area.
“I live with my elderly mother, I can’t get to her, and I’ve got nowhere else to go. I just have to wait it out.The siege is understood to have begun when police attempted to serve two return to prison warrants for a pair of men on Rimu Place, just off McLaren Road, the Bulletin reported. Several ambulances and police vehicles have blocked off streets with a police negotiator heard speaking through a megaphone by neighbours.
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