Man shot dead in Australia

September 24, 2014 01:05 am | Updated 01:05 am IST - CANBERRA:

A man was shot dead and two counterterrorism police were stabbed in a confrontation in Melbourne on Tuesday, police said.

It was not clear whether the violence was related to a recent call from the IS group to supporters to kill in their home countries. But police said the man appeared to be acting alone.

An Australian Federal Police officer and a Victoria state police officer who were part of a Joint Counter Terrorism Team had asked the 18-year-old man to come to a police station in southeast Melbourne in relation to a routine matter in an investigation when the violence erupted outside the station, police said.

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