Melbourne siege: Police begin search of attacker's home

Police are searching the Melbourne house where the man responsible for the Brighton siege lived with his mother.

File image of Yacqub Khayre (centre) leaving court in Melbourne, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010. Source: AAP

Police are scouring a house in suburban Melbourne for evidence after a terrorist siege in Brighton saw two men killed and three police shot.

Sherwin Place in Roxburgh Park has been blocked off and police have set up tents in the street as they search the house where the 29-year-old criminal Yacqub Khayre lived with his mother.

Police are seen at the Buckingham Serviced Apartments in Brighton, Melbourne, Tuesday, June 6, 2017. (AAP) Source: APP

He killed an innocent apartment clerk and took a female escort hostage in Brighton on Monday, in what could have been a bid to lure police into a terrorist attack.

Dozens of police are milling around the Roxburgh Park house, removing bags of evidence.