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Talia Shadwell

Melbourne shooting: One dead after four people blasted outside nightclub

Four people have been shot outside a nightclub in Australia - leaving one dead and another seriously injured.

Victoria Police said the victims were shot outside the club in the small hours of the morning in the inner Melbourne district of Prahran.

Local media are naming the club as Love Machine, in the Australian city's stylish Chapel Street nightclubbing dsitrict.

The Age reports a security guard was shot in the face, and another guard and a patron were wounded in a drive-by shooting involving a stolen black Porsche Cayenne.

The victim's were rushed to  Melbourne's Alfred Hospital.

Police were urging people to avoid the area in popular nightclubbing district Chapel Street (Pat Mitchell/Twitter)
Victoria Police are investigating the shooting (Pat Mitchell/Twitter)

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Police say they believe multiple people were shot outside the nightclub at 3.20am Sunday, local time.

Police they say an investigation is underway and the exact circumstances are still being established.

They were urging people to avoid the area around the venue, where local footage showed cordons remained in

Investigators can be seen at the shooting scene at daybreak (Pat Mitchell/Twitter)
The area of Prahran, Melbourne where the shooting took place (Pat Mitchell/Twitter)
The shooting took place shortly after 3am local time (Pat Mitchell/Twitter)

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No arrests have yet been reported.

The Age reports five people were shot across Melbourne in unconnected incidents in March.

The news site reported claims detectives investigating the shooting at Love Machine are expected to investigate links between an "outlaw motorcycle gang" said to have made extortion attempts on the venue.

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