Authorities are searching for two Australian men suspected of fatally shooting a Melbourne man and injuring another at a villa on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Dfat) confirmed a man died and another was injured.
The shooting, just after midnight on Friday at Villa Casa Santisya near Munggu Beach in the district of Badung, killed Zivan Radmanovic, 32, from Melbourne. The second victim, who is 34 and also from Melbourne, was beaten, Badung police chief, Arif Batubara, said.
“We cannot yet determine the motive,” Batubara said, adding that an investigation was under way.
The two Australians were taken to hospitals in Denpasar.
Dfat confirmed on Sunday morning it was helping the family of a dead man but would not confirm his name.
“[The department] is providing consular assistance to the family of an Australian who died in a shooting incident in Bali,” it said in a statement.
“We send our deepest condolences to the family at this difficult time.
“DFAT stands ready to provide consular assistance to another Australian injured in the same incident.
“Owing to our privacy obligations we are unable to provide further comment.”
According to police, the villa had only three rooms occupied with a total of five guests when the shooting happened. The two victims’ wives were also there and another foreign tourist, Batubara said.
Radmanovic was shot in a bathroom, where police found 17 bullet casings and two intact bullets.
At least three witnesses at the villa told investigators that two gunmen, one wearing an orange jacket with a dark helmet and another wearing a dark green jacket, a black mask and a dark helmet, arrived on a scooter at the villa around midnight.
Radmanovic’s wife told police she woke up when she heard her husband screaming. She cowered under a blanket when she heard multiple gunshots.
She later found her husband’s body and the injured Australian, whose wife has also testified to seeing the attackers.
The Australian consulate in Bali has been contacted by authorities and an autopsy for further investigation was waiting permission from the family of the victim, Batubara said.
