Mosque raided after Australia 'terrorism-linked' shooting

Mosque raided after Australia 'terrorism-linked' shooting, An Australian abbey reportedly visited by a 15-year-old boy afore he attempt asleep a noncombatant badge agent in an "act of terrorism" has been raided, badge said Sunday, as authorities additional efforts to accouterment adolescence radicalisation.

New South Wales accompaniment badge said the abbey in Parramatta in western Sydney -- abutting to the arena of the bifold cutting on Friday afternoon -- was raided with the accord of religious leaders.

"NSW Badge bygone accomplished a accreditation at a abbey in Parramatta," badge said in a account Sunday.

"The accreditation was undertaken by adjustment with administration at the abbey who provided abounding abetment to badge at all times."

The 15-year-old gunman, who asleep accounts artisan Curtis Cheng at abutting ambit alfresco the badge force's address afore he was attempt asleep by officers, visited the abbey afore the shooting, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Saturday the advance "appears to accept been an act of terrorism".

Police would not accommodate added data about the raid, while chief sources told the ABC that the teen's sister went missing Thursday and boarded a Singapore Airlines flight to Istanbul, abacus that she could be apprenticed for Iraq or Syria.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop would not animadversion on the address of the girl's travels, but said Australian federal and accompaniment governments were in talks with Muslim communities afterwards the boy was articular as getting of Iraqi-Kurdish accomplishments and built-in in Iran.

"Yesterday, Prime Minister Turnbull and (NSW) Premier Mike Baird had a continued chat with not only... accordant agencies but aswell leaders in the Muslim community," Bishop told the ABC on Sunday.

"We're absolutely extensive out to the leaders of the Muslim association but alive with the families at a grassroots bounded level.

"It's the families that will be our frontline of defence adjoin radicalised adolescent people."

Investigators accept yet to authorize why the boyhood -- who has no bent history -- targeted Cheng, a 58-year-old ancestor of two.

NSW Badge Commissioner Andrew Scipione Saturday declared Cheng, who had formed for the force for 17 years, as "admired and admired by his colleagues".

"He was a affable man in every sense."
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