A gunman has killed two people at a concert in western Austria before turning the weapon on himself.

Police said the 27-year-old gunman fired shots into a crowd of about 150 peole attending an open air concert in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The incident happened near the town of Nenzing in the Voralberg province, about 24 miles east of Austria's border with Liechtenstein.

Eleven people were also wounded in the shooting and are understood to be in a serious condition in hospital.

According to the police, the 1am (GMT) shooting followed a loud argument between the man and a woman in the car park at the open air venue.

He is then thought to have returned to his car, retrieved a gun reported to be a rifle, and opened fire at the concert.

Witneses said many of the terrified concert-goers fled into the surrounding woodland and even onto the nearby motorway to escape the shooting.

Police spokeswoman Susanne Dilp said:"The exact course of events is still unclear" but she added the victims' wounds were "very diverse".