Terrorism on our doorstep: Islamic State linked to murder of Brisbane couple

Friday December 18, 2020

Queensland police are treating a double murder and a police shooting on a busy motorway in Brisbane’s south as a terrorism event and have warned people to check on their relatives in the area.

Police attend the murder scene at a house in Parkinson (Photo: The New Daily)

Raghe Abdi, 22, threatened police with a knife before being shot on the Logan Motorway on Thursday morning.

Abdi had been influenced by Islamic State, was on bail and had previously been arrested by counterterrorism officers.

Police say the shooting is directly linked to the deaths of a 87-year-old…

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