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TEHRAN, May 11 - Seven people have been discovered dead in the town of Margaret River, near Perth, Australia, police say.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) – Seven people have been discovered dead in the town of Margaret River, near Perth, Australia, police say. They are believed to be victims of a mass shooting, with guns found nearby. Four of the victims are children.
Police were called in early on Friday morning to a rural property in Margaret River. Upon their arrival, they discovered seven people dead at the scene: three adults and four children, according to a statement by Western Australia's Commissioner of Police Chris Dawson. Firearms were discovered at the scene, and the bodies appeared to have gunshot wounds. Special units, including homicide investigators and a forensics unit, were dispatched from Perth.
Police are expected to remain at the scene for some time, but they say the area is not dangerous for the general public.
Shootings on such a scale are rare in Australia, where tough gun legislation effectively bans civilians from possessing many types of firearms. All legal guns must be registered to their owners by serial numbers, and possessing one requires a license, which, in turn, requires a legitimate reason. Self-defense is not considered reason enough to get a gun license.
The current gun laws were introduced after a mass shooting in 1996, and they led to a sharp decline in the number of such incidents. The government also bought back or confiscated about a million now-illegal firearms from citizens.
Another "gun amnesty" took place in 2017 and lasted for three months, during which citizens turned in some 57,000 weapons. Among them were some exotic specimens, like 19th-century guns or a rocket launcher. Outside of an amnesty, possessing an illegal firearm is punishable by a massive fine and a prison sentence.
Source: RT
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