Two officers shot at in the town of Tara

Police are hunting a gunman after officers were shot at in the town Tara, west of Brisbane.

No one was reported injured after the shots were fired at a police car smashing a window. 

Officers have cordoned off an area in Tara, declaring it an exclusion zone with residents told to say indoors. 

Officers are hunting a gunman after shots were reported fired at police car smashing a window in the Queensland town of Tara

The shots were fired at 3.30pm and the exclusion zone declared at 5.30pm.

The zone includes Surat Development Rd, Day St, Benn St, Fry St and Milne St. 

Several residents have been evacuated. 

Tara is being surrounded by police from Chinchilla, Dalby and other western Queensland stations as residents reported being just missed by bullets.

Following shots being fired police established an exclusion zone in the Queensland town of Tara

Local community representative David Maynard told Daily Mail Australia one woman heard ‘four low powered gun shots from a.22 rifle’ while another said they saw ‘a bullet go straight past me’.

Queensland’s Special Emergency Response Team are about to land in Tara via helicopter out of Brisbane.

Tara was the home base for officers Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold who were gunned down at nearby Wieambilla property in December. 

A resulting shoot-out with Special Emergency Response Team officers led to the deaths of Gareth Train, Stacey Train and former Walgett school principal Nathaniel Train who had ambushed the two officers.

The trio were later revealed to be doomsday preppers who believed in a mixture of apocalyptic scenarios where the government was trying to harm or control them. 

Neighbour Alan Dare, who had come to assist when saw smoke coming from the property, was also killed by the Trains before they were shot dead by tactical police. 

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