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Monday, October 21, 2002
Shooting at Australia's Monash U, two dead eight injured
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - An attacker opened fire at a university in the southern city of Melbourne on Monday, killing two people and wounding eight others, police said.
Police said a person had been arrested in the shootings at Monash University in southeastern Melbourne.
Paramedics were called to the campus just before 11:30 a.m. (0130 GMT), an ambulance spokeswoman said.
The paramedics at the scene confirmed two people were dead, and two badly wounded, the spokeswoman said on usual condition of anonymity.
She said one man who had been shot in the stomach was airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries.
Another person had been shot in the leg, she added.
Police later said two people were dead and eight people were injured.
No further details were immediately available. - AP
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A man firing a shotgun killed two people and injured eight on Monday at a university campus in the Australian city of Melbourne, police and emergency services said.
"(There are) two deceased and eight injured," a spokeswoman for police in the southern state of Victoria told Reuters.
"We don't know the reason."
The spokeswoman said a man had been taken into custody after the shooting on the sixth floor of a building at the Monash University campus on the outskirts of Australia's second largest city at around 11:20 a.m. (0020 GMT).
A female student identified only as Samara said she had been waiting for an Indonesian language exam on a floor below when the shooting broke out.
"We just heard these horrific screams and it was just devastating," Samara told Melbourne radio 3AW.
"We just heard someone go: 'Oh my God, oh my God, get out, help me, help me, get out'. We just ran straight out," she said.
The shooting came amid heightened nervousness in Australia a week after bombs killed 180 tourists, many of them Australians, in the popular Indonesian holiday of Bali to Australia's north.
It also revived memories of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in which a gunman shot dead 35 people in the southern island state of Tasmania.
Police and ambulance workers said the two dead were shot inside the Robert Menzies Building at the Monash University campus around 20 km outside the city centre.
The building in which the shootings occurred is believed to be connected to the university's arts faculty, police said.
Two of the injured -- a man in his 20s and another man in his 30s -- were in serious condition.
"Two men are in a serious condition, one with shotgun wounds to the central body," an ambulance service spokeswoman said.
Others had shotgun wounds to their faces or upper bodies.
Local television showed some of the injured being evacuated by helicopter to local hospitals.
Doctors and paramedics were treating the less seriously injured on campus, officials said.
Australia's worst massacre of modern times was in 1996, when lone gunman Martin Bryant shot dead 35 people in the tourist town and former penal colony of Port Arthur in Tasmania.
Monday's shootings also coincide with a U.S. police hunt for a sniper who has traumatised the Washington area. Nine people have been killed in random killings there since October 2.
Australia, an island continent of 20 million, is in mourning after nearly 100 Australians -- mainly young revellers, surfers and rugby players -- were cut down in bomb attacks in Bali blamed on Islamic militants .