An Australian TV newsreader broke down in tears during a live broadcast when she realised her connection to one of the victims of yesterday's siege at a Sydney cafe.

New South Wales police have confirmed three people, including the 50 year old hostage taker Mon Man Haron Monis, have died after a SWAT team moved in to end the siege of a café in central Sydney. The two other dead are a 38 year-old woman and a 34 year-old man.