Monica Tan has sent through this report from Charles Street:

I‘m standing about 100m away from the police building. A small section of the street between Macquarie and Hassall on Charles Streets has been cordoned off and is being manned by a dozen police. I watched them remove at least one body covered in a white sheet although witnesses have said they saw two bodies.

There is a small group of residents who have gathered, unable to return home. Many of them have loved ones and family members in the building.

Next to the police station is a childcare centre, where children and staff remain trapped inside. Dennis Entriken and his wife have a 3 and a 1/2 year old daughter in the centre and have been waiting since 5 o’clock after learning about the incident. They are feeling worried and frustrated.

“We don’t know whether they were inside or outside playing when it happened, or what they saw. We just know they’re safe,” he said.