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One of the hostages runs toward police from a cafe in the central business district of Sydney on Monday. Five people ran out of a Sydney cafe where a gunman has taken hostages and displayed an Islamic flag against the window, witnesses and police said. AFP PHOTO
One of the hostages runs toward police from a cafe in the central business district of Sydney on Monday. Five people ran out of a Sydney cafe where a gunman has taken hostages and displayed an Islamic flag against the window, witnesses and police said. AFP PHOTO
SYDNEY: A man holding hostages in a Sydney cafe on Monday has demanded that a flag of the Islamic State group be delivered to him and warned that four bombs have been planted around the city, a report said.