Reason police were at Wieambilla property before bloody ambush revealed

A missing, “mild-mannered” former school principal was one of three suspects killed in a gunfight after two officers were executed at a Queensland property.

Queensland Police officers were responding to an urgent SOS from their NSW counterparts when they were ambushed and executed in cold blood at a remote property yesterday.

On Monday afternoon, two young police officers were gunned down at a remote property in Wieambilla in Queensland’s western Darling Downs region, with a further two officers narrowly escaping with their lives.

A neighbour - since identified as Alan Dare - was also killed in the attack, while Special Operations police later shot dead three more people in a gunfight following a manhunt for multiple suspects.

It has since emerged that the officers were responding to a special request from NSW Police regarding a missing Dubbo man, TheDaily Telegraph reports.

According to the publication, Queensland Police had been asked to help in the search for Nathaniel Train, whose brother was believed to live at the Wains Rd property.

It has since been revealed that Nathaniel and his brother Gareth Train were both killed in the ensuing gunfight.

Nathaniel Train was a former school principal at Yorkeys Knob State School, with a 2017 Cairns Post article about a school fundraiser describing him as a “mild-mannered school leader”.