{"id":63603,"date":"2025-08-12T22:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T22:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63603\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T22:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T22:36:09","slug":"police-firearm-discharged-at-sydney-airport-during-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63603\/","title":{"rendered":"Police firearm discharged at Sydney Airport during arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">An operation is underway at Sydney Airport after a firearm was discharged as federal police officers attempted to arrest a man inside a domestic terminal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A crime scene has been sectioned off in the T2 terminal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The ABC understands the man was being detained by officers in a struggle when the police gun was fired.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Australian Federal Police (AFP) confirmed the man had been arrested.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Crime scene tape at Sydney Airport\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d487c248e06a1b83e5368f68003d879a\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The man was arrested inside the T2 terminal on Wednesday morning. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;An investigation into the incident has been launched &#8230; and there is no ongoing threat to the public,&#8221; a spokesperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Further comment will be provided at an appropriate time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In a statement, Sydney Airport said it was assisting the AFP following the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;No injuries occurred as a result of the incident. An arrest has been made and the airport is operating normally,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An operation is underway at Sydney Airport after a firearm was discharged as federal police officers attempted to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50870,43,44,21033,1158,4497,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-63603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-domestic-terminal","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-operation","tag-police","tag-sydney-airport","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63603","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=63603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}