Two officers killed, another injured in shooting in Australia

Two police officers have been killed and another injured in a shooting at a rural property in Porepunkah in north-east Victoria, Report informs via ABC News.

Emergency services have swarmed the scene of the incident in the regional town, 300 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, with the shooter believed to still be at large.

"This is still an active incident and we will provide more information when it's operationally safe to do so," police said in a statement on X (formerly Twitter) this afternoon.

"We ask people to avoid the area."

Sources have told the ABC the officers were executing a warrant for historical sex offences when the shooting took place.

It's understood that the shooter identifies as a "sovereign citizen", a movement steeped in the belief that the government and institutions such as courts are illegitimate.

Ambulance Victoria said paramedics treated one person for "serious lower body injuries" and transported them by air ambulance in a stable condition.