A security guard is dead and another man is fighting for his life after a drive-by shooting outside a popular Melbourne nightclub, police said on Sunday, amid a spate of gun violence in Australia's second-largest city.
Police said four men - three security guards and a patron waiting to get in - were shot outside the Love Machine club in the trendy inner-city suburb of Prahran early on Sunday morning.
"This is just a horrendous act. It's a busy nightclub, one of the main nightclubs in Melbourne in one of the main entertainment precincts in Melbourne."A 28-year-old man was in a critical condition, while two others aged 29 and 50 had non-life threatening injuries, police said.Investigators were probing links to motorcycle gangs, Melbourne's Age newspaper reported.
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.
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