A drive-by shooting outside a nightclub in the Australian city of Melbourne inflicted \u201chorrific injuries\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Australia has some of the\n world\u2019s toughest gun control laws, adopted after its worst mass murder,\n when a gunman killed 35 people at Port Arthur in the island state of \nTasmania in 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three security guards and a man queueing to \nenter were taken to hospital with gunshot injuries, police said in a \ntelevised news conference in Melbourne.\u201cIt would appear that shots have \nbeen discharged from a car in this area into a crowd standing outside \nthe nightclub,\u201d homicide inspector Andrew Stamper said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One guard\n died in hospital, another man was in critical condition and two escaped\n life-threatening injuries. One guard was shot in the face, the Age \nnewspaper said. However, there was no suggestion yet that the attack was\n terror-related, a police spokeswoman said by telephone.Bloodstained \nclothing and bullet casings littered the street outside the entrance to \nthe second-storey Love Machine nightclub early on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police \nurged witnesses who saw any vehicle moving at speed around 3 a.m. to \ncome forward, and mentioned a black Porsche SUV that was later found \nburnt-out in the north Melbourne suburb of Wollert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A \nmurder-suicide last year in Western Australia that killed seven members \nof a family was the country\u2019s worst mass shooting since the Port Arthur \ncase.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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