Fear in Sydney, Australia , where a man opened fire on a busy street and fired between 50 and 100 shots, before being arrested by the police .
According to officials , 20 people were injured.
The man was "firing indiscriminately at passing vehicles, including police vehicles," officers said. "There may have been between 50 and 100 rounds fired ," NSW Police Commissioner Stephen Parry said.
Two hours after the shooting, police arrested a 60-year-old man suspected of being the perpetrator in an apartment. He was taken to the hospital and treated for injuries. Police, according to AFP, have ruled out any links to terrorism or criminal gang activity.
An investigation is underway.
Mass shootings are relatively rare in Australia. A ban on automatic and semi-automatic weapons has been in place since 1996, when a gunman killed 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania. In August, Dezi Freeman fled into the bush after being accused of killing two police officers. He remains at large. And in 2022, six people, including two police officers, were killed in a shooting near the town of Wieambilla, Queensland.
(Unioneonline)
