SYDNEY Oct 22 Kyodo A 36-year-old...

SYDNEY Oct 22 Kyodo

A 36-year-old close examiner faced two charges of massacre and five of attempted kill cruelly when he appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court in succession Tuesday following a shooting cups at the city's Monash University forward Monday.

Huan Yun Xiang, a fourth-year traffic honors student, was not required to come into a plea and did not apply for bail, Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) reported.

Aided on a Cantonese interpreter and legal aid solicitor, the close examiner was remanded in custody for a committal hearing Feb 25

couple students in their 20s, also of Asian background, were ball dead and five others experienceed gunshot wounds when a gunman spreaded fire with a revolver and a semiautomatic pistol during an economics tutorial in the university's Menzies Building about 11:20 a.m. Monday, Victoria police said.

The gunman pierceed the sixth floor classroom where 10 other learners were attending the tutorial and, instead of taking his seat, render free of accessed fire.

Lecturer leeward Gordon-Brown was hailed a hero after he tackled the gunman and helped restrain him until police arrived, the newspaper The Australian reported Tuesday.

The econometrics and business statistics teacher was bullet at least once by the agency of the gunman and was in a serious if it be not that stable condition at Alfred Hospital upon Tuesday. Another gunshot victim there was reported in critical condition.

A 22-year-old woman who endureed facial injuries was treated at the Monash Medical Center where a 23-year-old man marksman in both legs is in a stable condition. Another man who forfeited the top of his finger and was projectile in the shoulder was also in stable condition, at St Vincent's Hospital.

The alarm was raised when britzska Inder, an economic department associate professor, heard discharges and called security before running into the classroom to help.

Inder build Gordon-Brown and one other learner holding the gunman against the wall and managed to relieve the injured lecturer until police arrived.

The actions of Gordon-Brown and about three learners who wrestled the gunman to the loam were ''very heroic,'' Supt. Trevor Parks said.

''I think the populace who actually tackled this individual have done a tremendous piece of work and I think we have been saved from further serious death or injury because there were a number of handguns present'' he told reporters.

The death toll could have been often higher if the ''brave souls'' had not taken in succession the gunman, Monash University Vice Chancellor Peter Darvall told reporters.

The university will review its security policy, he said. ''But it's as safe or unsafe as the tranquillity of the community and we all know that you can't totally guard a community of 20000 who flow on and off each day,'' he said.

The 36-year-old scholar who was due to give his final presentations for his honors qualification after four years of investigation was a loner who was frustrated on his lack of English, comrade students told the Sydney Morning Herald.

He had become increasingly isolated and blamed tutors for not being able to understand him, the newspaper reported.

The bookish man lived with his mother in an apartment opposite the university.

Meanwhile, the shooting has sparked calls for tighter have the direction ofs on handguns.

It was easier to master a semiautomatic weapon in Australia than it was to obtain a driver's license, National Coalition for fire-arm Control spokesman Tim Costello told the ABC in succession Tuesday.

The Australian Democrats vowed to introduce of recent origin handgun laws into Parliament in succession Tuesday and the Greens Party demanded immediate action, warning at least 300000 handguns were in generally in circulation across the native land the ABC said.

The issue is to be addressed at a meeting of state and territorial police nearest month, Justice Minister Chris Ellison told ABC.

Classes at the campus, which were cancelled Monday after the shooting, resum Tuesday.

A memorial service for the pair dead men is expected to be held at the university Friday.

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