Shooting at western Sydney business kills two persons

A man who police say fatally shot one person and wounded two others inside a western Sydney business was found dead inside the building after a six-hour standoff on Monday.

Heavily armed police moved into the sign-making business after spending hours positioned around the factory in an industrial area of Ingleburn, a suburb 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Sydney.

Once inside, they found a 33-year-old man dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, said New South Wales police Detective Inspector Mark Brett.

Police also found three other people hiding inside the building and escorted them outside, Brett said. It was not clear whether they had been held inside by the shooter or had been hiding while they waited for the standoff to end. When police arrived at the scene, they found three men suffering gunshot wounds. One of them died at the spot.