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theage.com.au on 2020-03-30 03:56

From the Archives, 1978: 20 held hostage in Melbourne restaurant siege

In 1978, police cordoned off Bourke Street as a man armed with two shotguns held 20 people hostage at the Italian Waiters' Club in Meyers Place.

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