Australia mass shooting: at least four killed and two injured in Darwin
foto: Armed police respond to the shooting in Darwin. Photo: Twitter
At least four people are dead and two injured in a mass shooting in the city centre of Darwin, northern Australia.
Police have arrested the suspected shooter, described as a Caucasian man aged 45, who was wearing high-visibility overalls, writes South China Morning Post
Witnesses told national broadcaster ABC that the man walked into the Palms Motel on Darwin’s Esplanade and opened fire with a pump-action shotgun just before 6pm on Tuesday.
Northern Territory police duty superintendent Lee Morgan said: “At this stage we’ve got reports of four deceased and a number of other people who have been shot.”
Morgan said police first received calls about shots being fired at 5.50pm local time.
Witness Leah Potter said the gunman was armed with a pump-action shotgun and shot a woman through her hotel room door.