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Toorak siege: Five hour stand-off ends as man taken to hospital

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A man who holed himself up in an apartment in Toorak for five hours has been taken to hospital.  

Police had been negotiating with the man, who was behaving erratically and refusing to come out of the apartment on Toorak Road, Toorak, near Tintern Avenue.

Police were called to the incident in the exclusive suburb about 2.30pm on Friday.

The man was taken to hospital in a stable condition at 7.50pm.