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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Elias Visontay here bringing you news updates from overnight and this morning.
The New South Wales police minister, Yasmin Catley, is “horrified by the level of violence” seen on Sydney streets after a double shooting in the heart of Parramatta on Sunday evening. Officers were called to the incident at about 5.10pm, where they found two men with multiple gunshot wounds, near two others who were uninjured. The injured men were taken to hospital.
Police were then called to a street about 4.7km from the shooting scene after receiving reports of a car fire and arrived to find a vehicle and a nearby tree alight. Investigations are under way into whether the two incidents are linked.
Meanwhile, the Bureau of Meteorology has issued broad warnings for damaging winds across swathes of southern Australia. In Victoria, the Bureau has warned that north-westerly winds are strengthening ahead of a cold front bringing damaging to winds about elevated parts of the state on Monday morning. The risk of damaging winds is expected to become more widespread in western and central parts of the state during the day today, particularly with showers and thunderstorms. The warning follows a 122km/h wind gust being detected at Mount William at 11:58 pm last night.
Authorities are also warning of “damaging, possibly destructive winds” developing over South Australia. A vigorous cold front is crossing central parts of the South Australian coast and will move over eastern inland areas during the morning, the Bureau said, with north-westerly winds to then strengthen ahead of the front before shifting more westerly behind it. Destructive winds are classified as those measured above 125km/h.
