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2014 Sydney hostage crisis

Took place on December 15, 2014

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The Lindt Café siege (also known as the Sydney siege) was a terrorist hostage-taking that occurred on 15–16 December 2014 when a lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt Chocolate Café hostage in the APA Building in Martin Place, Sydney, Australia.

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