Three people have been killed and another injured after a shooting in a small town in New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
Emergency services were called to a residential area in Lake Cargelligo at about 16:40 local time (05:40 GMT) on Thursday.
Police are searching for Julian Ingram, 37, in connection with the killings.
A man and woman were found shot dead in a vehicle, and a second shooting soon afterwards killed a woman and left a man in a “critical condition” in hospital, police said.
Australian newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the incident was a suspected domestic violence attack and that one of the victims is believed to be Ingram’s former partner.
Andrew Holland, NSW police assistant commissioner, declined to comment on the relationship between the gunman and the victims.
The public was urged to remain indoors and multiple crime scenes have been established, he told reporters.
NSW police later released a photograph of Ingram and urged the public to get in contact with any information on his whereabouts.
“Any death in a small country town is confronting, but again, a scene where you have people shot by firearms is obviously going to make people very, very tense and very concerned,” Holland said.
“The scene faced by the emergency services officers at that time would have been horrendous.”
Lake Cargelligo is located in the centre of New South Wales and has a population of about 1,500 people.
The incident comes after last month’s mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach which killed 15 people.
