Images from the Sydney hostage situation
Three people, including the gunman, were killed as police on Monday ended the siege of a Sydney café where a self-styled Muslim cleric was holding hostages
A injured hostage is carried to an ambulance after shots were fired during a cafe siege at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. Three people, including the gunman, were killed as police on Monday ended the siege of a Sydney café where a self-styled Muslim cleric was holding hostagesRob Griffith/The Associated Press
A hostage runs out of a cafe in the central business district of Sydney on December 16, 2014. Police stormed the Sydney cafe where a gunman had taken hostages and displayed an Islamic flag, television footage showed early December 16. Three people, including the gunman, were killed as police on Monday ended the siege of a Sydney café where a self-styled Muslim cleric was holding hostagesPeter Parks/AFP / Getty Images
A injured hostage is wheeled to an ambulance after shots were fired during a cafe siege at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. Three people, including the gunman, were killed as police on Monday ended the siege of a Sydney café where a self-styled Muslim cleric was holding hostagesRob Griffith/The Associated Press
Hostages run towards armed tactical response police as they run to freedom from a cafe under siege at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014.Rob Griffith/The Associated Press
Hostages run towards armed tactical responce police as they run to freedom from a cafe under siege at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014.Rob Griffith/The Associated Press
A hostage runs to armed tactical response police officers for safety after she escaped from a cafe under siege at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia.Rob Griffith/The Associated Press
Two hostages (L) run for cover behind a policeman (R) during a hostage siege in the central business district of Sydney on December 15, 2014. Three people ran out of a Sydney cafe where a gunman has taken hostages and displayed an Islamic flag against the window, police said December 15, adding that no one has yet been harmed.William West/AFP / Getty Images
One of the hostages runs towards police from a cafe in the central business district of Sydney on December 15, 2014.Saeed Khan/AFP / Getty Images
A hostage runs to armed tactical response police officers for safety after she escaped from a cafe under siege at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014.Rob Griffith/The Associated Press
Police push back a member of the public who tried to get into a building located near the Lindt cafe, where hostages are being held, at Martin Place in central Sydney December 15, 2014. Australian police locked down the centre of the country's biggest city on Monday.David Gray/Reuters
This screengrab taken from the Australian Channel Seven broadcast shows presumed hostages holding up a flag with Arabic writing inside a cafe in the central business district of Sydney on December 15, 2014.Channel Seven/AFP / Getty Images
Hands are pressed up against the window of the Lindt cafe, where hostages are being held, in this still image taken from video from Australia's Seven Network on December 15, 2014.
A female hostage stands by the front entrance of the cafe as she turns the lights off in the Sydney central business district on December 15, 2014.William West/AFP / Getty Images
A police officer runs across Martin Place near Lindt cafe, where hostages are being held, in central Sydney December 15, 2014.David Gray/Reuters
Armed police patrol on December 15, 2014 in Sydney, Australia. Major landmarks in Sydney, including the Sydney Opera House, have been evacuated as police respond to a hostage situation inside a Martin Place cafe.Joosep Martinson/Getty Images