A manhunt is underway in a rural part of Australia after two police officers were killed and another seriously wounded in a shooting.

The incident occurred on Tuesday morning when 10 armed police officers tried to execute a search warrant at a property in Porepunkah - a town of just over 1,000 people in Victoria state - 200 miles north east of Melbourne.

A 59-year-old detective and a 35-year-old senior constable "were met by the offender and they were murdered in cold blood", Victoria’s Chief Commissioner of Police Mike Bush told reporters at a news conference in the nearby city of Wangaratta.

The man fled alone, on foot and heavily armed into surrounding forest where hundreds of officers are still searching for him, the police chief added.

The gunman remains at large in the vast and r

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