A man has died after being shot in the chest in Brisbane‘s CBD in an incident police are calling “accidental“.
The shooting occurred during the filming of a movie in Brooklyn Standard, a bar near Eagle Street. The man, in his 20s, has not been identified.
The producers of Pacific Rim 2: Uprising, which shut down a part of Brisbane’s CBD over the weekend of January 13 and 14, have said that while they were filming in the area yesterday afternoon, the shooting is not related to their production.
Police have said that the shooting was “a workplace incident“.
Residents of the area are being advised to avoid Eagle Lane, where police have cordoned off the crime scene.
We will update this story as it develops.
Source: ABC.
Image: Twitter / @JoshBavas.
