Two critical in shooting outside Melbourne nightclub
A Victoria Police personnel works at the scene of a multiple shooting outside Love Machine nightclub in Prahran, Melbourne, on April 14, 2019.
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PUBLISHED ONApril 13, 2019 6:06 PM
Two people are fighting for their lives after a shooting outside a Melbourne nightclub, police said Sunday (April 14), amid a spate of gun violence in Australia's second-largest city.
Police said four men were taken to hospital - two in a critical condition - after "multiple people were shot" outside the venue in the trendy inner-city suburb of Prahran early Sunday morning.
Three of the men were aged between 29 and 50, with the age of the fourth yet to be determined, police said.
A police spokeswoman told AFP the shooting was not believed to be linked to terrorism.
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Investigators were probing links to motorcycle gangs, The Age newspaper in Melbourne reported.
Police were expected to provide updates later Sunday.
The latest incident came after a spate of shootings in Melbourne in March that left five people dead in four separate incidents. Two of the incidents were believed to be gang-related.
Mass shootings are rare in Australia, which has strict gun laws introduced after 35 people were killed in 1996 at Port Arthur in Tasmania.
A murder-suicide last year which left seven members of a family dead in Western Australia was the country's worst mass shooting since the Port Arthur case.