One Dead In Shooting Outside Australia Nightclub, Three Injured

SYDNEY (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 14th April, 2019) A drive-by shooting outside a nightclub in the Australian city of Melbourne inflicted "horrific injuries" that killed a security guard and wounded three men, police said on Sunday, but there was no suggestion yet that the attack was terror-related.Sunday's shooting took place around 3.20am in the lively entertainment district of Melbourne's southeastern suburb of Prahran, police said.Three security guards and a man queueing to enter were taken to hospital with gunshot injuries, police said in a televised news conference in Melbourne."It would appear that shots have been discharged from a car in this area into a crowd standing outside the nightclub," homicide inspector Andrew Stamper said.The victims suffered "horrific injuries" from a weapon fired in close proximity, he added.One guard died in hospital, another man was in critical condition and two escaped life-threatening injuries.

One guard was shot in the face, the Age newspaper said.However, there was no suggestion yet that the attack was terror-related, a police spokeswoman said by telephone.Bloodstained clothing and bullet casings littered the street outside the entrance to the second-storey love Machine nightclub early on Sunday.Police urged witnesses who saw any vehicle moving at speed around 3am to come forward, and mentioned a black Porsche SUV that was later found burnt-out in the north Melbourne suburb of Wollert.No arrests have yet been made, and investigation continues.A murder-suicide last year in Western Australia that killed seven members of a family was the country's worst mass shooting since the Port Arthur case.Neighboring New Zealand has adopted legislation to ban semi-automatic firearms and assault rifles after its worst peacetime shooting in March, which killed 50 worshippers in two mosques in the city of Christchurch.