Australia police raid homes 4 days after deadly siege

Australian police today raided several homes in Melbourne as part of their investigation into a siege earlier this week in which a gunman killed an apartment building receptionist and wounded three police officers, officials said.
Gunman Yacqub Khayre, 29, was killed by police in Melbourne's suburb of Brighton Monday during the two-hour siege in which he also took a woman hostage.
Victoria State Premier Daniel Andrews told Sky News television that the raids were conducted "in connection with the terrible tragic events of Monday in Brighton."
Police in a statement said authorities were conducting a police operation they did not describe in detail in Melbourne's northern suburbs.

Police have called Monday's siege a terrorist incident but said there was no evidence Khayre had planned Monday's violence or had accomplices.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the violence.
Khayre, a Somali-born refugee, was acquitted by a Sydney court in 2005 of plotting a suicide attack at an army base a year earlier.