An armed man was shot by the Australian police when he was trying to hijack the bus. This was happened in the city of Melbourne. As per the officials a 21 year old guy was trying to drive off a bus by attacking the bus driver.

The bus was parked outside the Essendon railway station when this incident happened. The two police officers have tried their best to forcibly stop him with capsicum spray but when they failed, they had to fire at him.

The police tried hard to stop the bus first. Then they had asked him to get down on the ground but the hijacker did not listen to the police. Then the police officers fired at him and he was shot in his chest.

The police have informed the media that the man had a small pocket knife. He had punched the bus driver to get off the bus but the bus driver refused. Then he attacked him and was trying to hijack the bus.