Motorcycle gang member found with gunshot wounds outside Australian hospital

Police in Western Australia (WA) were investigating after a senior member of a motorcycle gang was shot and burnt before being dumped outside a Perth hospital, reported Xinhua.

WA Police Force Detective Senior Sergeant Anthony Thompson told reporters on Friday that the 51-year-old man was found collapsed outside a hospital in the southern suburbs of Perth, WA, before 10 p.m. local time on Thursday with gunshot wounds to his upper body and leg and burns to his legs.

He was admitted to the hospital in a serious but stable condition. Thompson said that police believe it was a targeted attack after the man tried to leave the Comanchero outlaw motorcycle gang, of which he was a "very well-known" senior member.

"We believe he was dropped off and just left there, which is a rather callous way to deal with someone with life-threatening injuries," Thompson said.

"This person has now been left with life-changing injuries, solely because he was a member of an outlaw motorcycle gang."

Police believed that the burns to the man's legs were sustained when someone tried to remove tattoos relating to the gang.

Thompson said that the incident should act as a deterrent for people to avoid joining outlaw motorcycle clubs.