Four people were shot outside a nightclub in the Australian city of Melbourne on Sunday, with two of the male victims in critical condition.

According to the Melbourne Police, the shooting which occurred outside the Love Machine nightclub located in the south-eastern suburb of Prahran at about 3:20 am also left two other men with non-life-threatening injuries.

The local Age newspaper reported that one of the wounded persons was a guard who was shot in the face in what the report described as a drive-by shooting.

The paper said the Police were still investigating and that no arrests had been made.