People you meet along the way - EP19 - Milperra Massacre - Pt 2

On Father's Day, September 2, 1984, the Viking Tavern becomes the site of the Mill Perra massacre, leaving seven dead and many injured. Ambulance teams rush to aid the victims as Bankstown Hospital braces for an influx of gunshot casualties. Security is heightened to avert further violence, while police work to gather evidence and control tensions between rival groups. The situation remains dire with ongoing developments.

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As promised, there's always more to come in the story of the Mill Perra massacre of Father's Day, September the second, 1984, the carpark at the Viking Tavern when we arrived there after a dashed down the Pacific Highway from a family party at the entrance resembled a war zone. The seven bodies of those killed still lay where they fell. 1, 3, 2. I'm at the scene now. Thank you. I can just have a clear channel. I'll give you a situation report. Nikki, you are coming through loud and clear this stage. We have the situation appear to be controlled here. Whether there are any other armed that the secreted within the hotel we do not know as yet. There are quite a few wounded shot people lying about. We need quite a large number of ambulance personnel. They can enter the car park area of the hotel through the in sign, through the entry sign to notify the local hotels. Bankstown Hospital. They will be receiving quite a few people with suffering from gunshot wounds, but they can enter from any other case at this stage. Are you confirming that 1, 3, 2 enter through the entry side, the inside into the hotel car park area. We'll need at least half a dozen to a dozen ambulances notify the local hospital, probably Bankstown Hospital to standby to receive quite a number of people suffering various gunshot wounds. Ambulance officers still treated the remainder of the 28 people injured. The more seriously injured taken to Bankstown and Liverpool hospitals where the warring bikers are gained. Threatened to riot CRG 20. CRG 20 CRG five. Will you get 20 to go to liver hospital please? CRG 20. What's your present location? CRG 20 at present location park. Alright, thank you. Request for you to attend the Liverpool hospital casualty section. Set up a guard there in relation to these parties. Have these brought in from the various Vikings gangs and make sure that there's no flare ups of any nature. How many personnel on that vehicle? 22 Personnel radio. We covered that right? Thank you. CG five. Does that mean we have further personnel coming from town? Would you get onto uh, 10 vision? We have C seven doing bomb. We tell 'em to leave it with the police that are there and head up to this area please. Confirming TG 17, is that correct? Correct. But I'm dropping two personnel off five at Bankstown now. Right. Thank you. Uh, you have five on your vehicle, dear, correct? Right. Uh, I'll leave that up to you. You're dropping two there and you're taking the rest over to liver. Yeah. 20. Going to Liverpool. We're gonna go down to the C and the, uh, other three In Bankstown Hospital's, intensive care unit commenter Chief Jock Ross Lay sedated, wounded by a shotgun pellet lodged in his skull at the tavern. Superintendent Ron Stevenson, detective Sergeant sart and Barry Smith faced the twin tasks of keeping the warring factions apart as scientific squad officers went about the job of collecting physical evidence of the murders in the tavern's main bar. Staff went about serving beer to the customers trapped in the bar by locked doors and a police guard. As always. There's more to come in the story of the massacre.