SYDNEY, Dec 3, (Xinhua): A man has died, and two others have been hospitalized following a shooting at a property in eastern Australia on Wednesday afternoon. Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) said in a statement that emergency services were alerted to the shooting in the small town of Eungella, over 640 km northeast of Sydney near the border with the state of Queensland, at around 1:25 pm local time on Wednesday.

Officers arrived and were told that two men, aged 38 and 41, had been shot by another man who subsequently fled the scene with a fourth man. The 41-year-old was treated by ambulance paramedics but died at the scene, while the 38-year-old sought treatment at a hospital for a gunshot wound.

Emergency services were then called to a second incident nearby after a 45-year-old man was hit by a car. He was taken to the hospital under police guard. NSW Police said that officers are waiting to speak to the two hospitalized men to establish the circumstances of how both were injured and are also working to locate a fourth man, believed to be aged 37.