Police have discovered the body of a man believed to be a gunman who held a mother and daughter hostage for hours in Brisbane.
A gunman had held the pair at a home on Earnshaw Road at Banyo for more than five hours on Thursday while police tried to negotiate.
The pair were rescued after a police Special Response Team managed to enter the house through an upstairs bathroom window and found them tied up.
As police were still trying to negotiate with the gunman, a drone and a robot were sent to the house, the first time Queensland police have used a drone in an operation.
Inspector David Morganti said officers used a remote camera to identify where the man was.
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"Eventually those remote techniques were successful and we were able to identify that he was in what appeared to be a state upstairs where he was not moving," he told reporters.
He said police entered the house and confirmed the man was dead in an upstairs room.
An emergency declaration surrounding the home and neighbouring streets was lifted after police discovered the body at 7.25pm.
Insp Morganti said police were still investigating whether there was a connection between the man and the two females held hostage.
Earlier, police Inspector Sean Cryer told reporters the woman, in her 40s, and the teenage girl rescued from the home were emotionally distraught but did not appear to have major injuries.
Officers had been called to a disturbance at the house just before 11am (AEST) and saw a man with what they believed was a gun and heard two shots.
Neighbours were evacuated and streets cordoned off as police declared an emergency situation at 11.45am (AEST).
