Several people have been arrested during a police operation, where bullets were fired into two cars during peak hour traffic in Sydney’s south-west.<\/p>\n
Tactical operations officers conducted a “high risk” arrest on River Road, Revesby about 5pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Images from the scene showed a Mitsubishi SUV riddled with bullet holes in the front and rear windscreens.<\/p>\n
The footage also showed a Mercedes located further along the same road with bullet holes in the windscreen and the side windows smashed.<\/p>\n
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One SUV had bullet holes in the front and rear windshield.\u00a0 (ABC News)<\/p>\n
Witnesses reported sounds of gunfire as police swarmed the car.<\/p>\n
Phone footage from one of the scenes appeared to show multiple officers with their guns drawn as they pinned a man to the ground in the middle of the busy road.<\/p>\n
Another video showed the moment officers carrying rifles surrounded the Mercedes and attempted to break the front passenger window and arrest the driver.<\/p>\n
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The Mercedes on River Road, Revesby after a police operation on Tuesday. (ABC News)<\/p>\n
Inside the Mercedes’s glove box there were keys to a Porsche and gloves with a fast food cup and spare clothes on the seat.<\/p>\n
“I was in my house and heard some gunshots going off \u2026 I heard some more gunshots and [saw] cars were swerving,” one eyewitness said.<\/p>\n
“There was a few officers.”<\/p>\n
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Witnesses reported sounds of gunfire. (ABC News)<\/p>\n
Police sources have described it as a “high risk” operation \u2014 a rarely-used tactic reserved for when officers believe there is imminent danger.<\/p>\n
There was no ongoing threat to the public, police said.<\/p>\n
“More information will be released when operationally appropriate,” NSW Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several people have been arrested during a police operation, where bullets were fired into two cars during peak…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,21033,1158,123019,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-195308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-operation","tag-police","tag-revesby","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}