SYDNEY: A man has died after being shot multiple times on a street in western Sydney on Friday.
Police in the Australian State of New South Wales (NSW) said in a statement that officers were deployed to reports of a public place shooting on a residential street in Blacktown, 30 kilometres west of central Sydney, around 11:50 am on Friday, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Officers arrived and found a man with gunshot wounds to his neck, chest and leg.
He was treated by ambulance paramedics, but died at the scene.
NSW Police said that officers initiated a pursuit when a vehicle seen leaving the scene failed to stop.
The vehicle crashed a short time later and two occupants who ran from the scene were arrested and taken to a nearby police station.
A crime scene has been established and police have commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the shooting.