Manhunt under way after two police officers shot dead in rural Australia

Police wait near the scene of a shooting (Simon Dallinger/AAP Image via AP)

Two police officers have been killed and another seriously wounded in a shooting at a property in rural Australia and the suspect remains at large, authorities said.

The shooting occurred on Tuesday morning during a police visit to a property in Porepunkah, a town of just over 1,000 people in Victoria state, 200 miles north east of Melbourne.