MELBOURNE: Multiple people have been shot outside a nightclub in the Australian city of Melbourne, police said on Sunday.
Two men were in hospital in critical condition, police said, while two other men had non-life-threatening injuries.
Three of the men were aged between 29 and 50, with the age of the fourth yet to be determined, police said.
The shooting occurred outside a nightclub in the southeastern Melbourne suburb of Prahran about 3:20 a.m. on Sunday, police said.
A police spokeswoman said by telephone that there was no suggestion the attack was terror-related at this stage.
The Age newspaper reported one of the wounded was a guard who was shot in the face in what the report described as a drive-by shooting outside the Love Machine nightclub.
Police were investigating but no arrests have yet been made.
A police spokeswoman said the shooting was not believed to be linked to terrorism.
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 firearms laws introduced in 1996 after 35 people were killed by a gunman in Port Arthur.
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 attack.
