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Three people have been killed and another injured after a shooting in a small town in New South Wales (NSW), Australia.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to a residential area in Lake Cargelligo at about 16:40 local time (05:40 GMT) on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Police are searching for Julian Ingram, 37, in connection with the killings.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Australian newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the incident was a suspected domestic violence attack <\/b>and that one of the victims is believed to be Ingram’s former partner.<\/p>\n
Andrew Holland, NSW police assistant commissioner, declined to comment on the relationship between the gunman and the victims.<\/p>\n
The public was urged to remain indoors and multiple crime scenes have been established, he told reporters.<\/p>\n
NSW police later released a photograph of Ingram and urged the public to get in contact with any information on his whereabouts.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
“The scene faced by the emergency services officers at that time would have been horrendous.”<\/p>\n
Lake Cargelligo is located in the centre of New South Wales and has a population of about 1,500 people.<\/p>\n
The incident comes after last month’s mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach which killed 15 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n