(CNN) Police in Australia have charged a man with the murder of a 16-year-old girl whose body was found stuffed in a barrel on the back of a pickup truck, sparking a manhunt and 27-hour siege at an apartment block on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

Officers issued a call for help to find Zlato Sikorsky, 34, last Thursday after he was suspected to have sped away from a property in Buccan, south of Brisbane, in a pickup truck as police arrived to make inquiries about missing teenager Larissa Beilby.

Zlatko Sikorsky, 34, has been charged with the murder of Larissa Beilby.

The black pickup was later found abandoned at a caravan park in the nearby suburb of Staplyton, with a barrel in the back bed which was revealed to contain a body, later identified as the missing teen.

On Friday afternoon, the police search for Sikorsky led to an apartment block in Alexandra Headlands, north of Brisbane.

Surrounding streets were cordoned off and neighbors told to take cover as police negotiated with Sikorsky for more than 24 hours.

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