Australia - Police are investigating three shooting incidents in Sydney in 24 hours.
A man is in police custody this afternoon after a man was shot in Sydney's west.
Ambulance crews were called to a house in Denver Road, St Clair, about 1.30pm, where they found a man, aged about 30, with gunshot wounds to the arm and chest, an ambulance spokesman said.
He was taken to Nepean Hospital in a stable condition, he said.
The call to ambulance crews had said the shooting was an accident.
"Whether he's accidentally shot himself or someone else accidentally shot him [is not known]," he said.
A police spokesman said another man had been taken into custody over the shootings and was being questioned.
In the early hours today, two shots were fired into a house at Beatrice Street, Bass Hill, about 1.10am, police say.
A number of people were at home at the time, but no one was injured.
"I can confirm it was a domestic incident, but unfortunately the details are pretty scarce," acting Inspector Alan Spence from Bankstown police said.
The occupants of the house are understood to have provided few details about the attack. No description of the gunmen was given.
The shooting comes after similar incidents in the same suburb and in the neighbouring suburb of Chester Hill a month ago.
"I wouldn't say that we are having any more than we normally encounter in this area," acting Inspector Spence said.
Soon after that shooting, 10 shots were fired into a tattoo parlour at Burwood Road, Belmore, about 1.45am.
Inspector Mark Pluss from Campsie police said a male worker was in the parlour at the time but was not injured.
Less than two months ago, a series of shootings and an arson attack at a tattoo parlour in Brighton-Le-Sands was described by police as "a battle over turf between rival [bikie] gangs".
"At this stage, I don't think we can put [the Belmore shooting] down to that," Inspector Pluss said.
He said there had been no other reported incidents at the parlour in the past.
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