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Two Killed in Australia Shooting

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.

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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. (8:20 p.m. EDT Sunday).

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.

Police and ambulance workers said the two dead were shot inside the Robert Menzies Building at the Monash University campus around 12 miles outside the city center.

Two of the injured -- a man in his 20s and another man in his 30s -- were in serious condition.

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 .

Source: Agencies

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