Man’s phone call sends Sydney suburb into lockdown

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A 52-year-old man is in hospital after he was Tasered multiple times by police during an alarming incident in the Sydney suburb of .

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The man had been driving to Tempe, where his family lives, when he allegedly called police and told them he had shot two people.

A man has been tasered during a confrontation in a Sydney suburb.

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He then allegedly started making threats against officers, which resulted in police putting the neighbourhood into lockdown.

Police later realised the threat was a hoax. The man was taken to St George Hospital in a stable condition.