Lindt cafe siege: Aussie police waited too long to react, says coroner
He recommends that authorities reconsider their "contain and negotiate" strategy to such attacks
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AUSTRALIAN police failed to respond quickly enough to the threat posed by a gunman responsible for a siege at a Sydney cafe in 2014 in which three people including the hostage-taker were killed, a coroner said on Wednesday.
While attributing blame for the deaths of Lindt Chocolate Cafe manager Tori Johnson and lawyer Katrina Dawson to gunman Man Haron Monis, New South Wales Coroner Michael Barnes said that police should have acted promptly after Monis fired a warning shot.
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