Overview

• Fugitive Squad officers raided a Porepunkah address on Thursday night, arresting a 42-year-old woman and a 15-year-old boy who were interviewed and released pending further inquiries.
• Hundreds of police and specialist units are deployed with assistance offered by federal and interstate teams, and Mount Buffalo National Park remains closed during the operation.
• Forecasts of heavy rain, hail and snow to about 600 metres, along with rugged bushland and caves, are hampering systematic searches of properties, mines and dugouts.
• Police say Freeman is heavily armed, skilled in bush survival and familiar with the area, and they have not recovered the weapons used; officers fired at him during the initial confrontation without evidence he was wounded.
• The warrant served on Tuesday related to alleged child sex offending, Detective Leading Senior Constable Neal Thompson, 59, and Senior Constable Vadim de Waart, 35, were killed, a third officer is recovering, and authorities urge the suspect to surrender while warning against anyone providing assistance.