[July 4th]

Two shot dead at Monash uni campus October 21 2002

Two people were shot dead and two others seriously injured at Monash University's Clayton campus in outer eastern-Melbourne, an ambulance spokeswoman said today.

Emergency services were called to the Menzies Building at the campus just before 11.30am.

An ambulance spokeswoman said one person was shot in the chest and one in the leg.

Police have reportedly detained a person.

A woman who works at the nearby by union building said she had seen two injured people.

``I've seen two people with blood on them come through to our medical centre,'' she told Melbourne radio 3AW.

She said a former policeman rushed into the shop to call police just before 11.30am.

``It's shocking that it could happen this close,'' she said.

A police media spokeswoman later said she had unconfirmed reports of two dead and two injured in the Monash University shooting.

``Shots were fired at about twenty past 11,'' she told AAP.

``We have unconfirmed reports of two dead and two injured and one person in police custody''. Further information was not immediately available.

[July 4th]

Monash University: Clayton Campus

[Ciexyz]

Very sad news indeed.

[RightWhale]

``It's shocking that it could happen this close,'' she said.

That's how it was in Bosnia. And Kosovo. And Paris of the East, Beirut. And everywhere else. Got to wonder if Homeland Defense can do anything about this.

[Frank_2001]

"Police have reportedly detained a person." A "religion of peace" person, perhaps?!