Three men have died and three others are injured after a shooting in central Malmo, southern Sweden, on Monday night.

The assailants opened fire as a group of men were leaving an internet cafe around 8pm, just hours after Sweden's World Cup win against South Korea.

Two of the victims, aged 18 and 29, died in hospital late on Monday evening, while a third man, in his 20s, was announced dead this morning, Swedish media reports.

Five people were shot in the city of Malmo in Sweden. Pictured: Officers have cordoned off the scene of the shooting

There were no indications the incident was related to terrorism, and the police have so far made no arrests, said force spokeswoman Maya Forstenius.

'We are treating this as an isolated event that is confined to these injured persons,'

Police are now looking for a dark vehicle in connection with the shooting, which took place a few hundred feet from the local police's headquarters in Sweden's third-most populated city.

Police have yet to confirm the latest death, which was first reported by local newspaper Sydsvenskan.

Witness were quoted as saying that at least one attacker was armed with an automatic weapon.

The police has so far reportedly refused to comment on the identity of the possible attacker or attackers.

There were no immediate details on the conditions of the other four victims. Pictured: officers at the scene

They also declined to give any detail of the victims although reports said several of them were well known to the police.

While Sweden has relatively low levels of crime, neighbourhoods in Malmo, Stockholm and Gothenburg have seen a rise in violence attributed to gangs fighting over drug trafficking and prostitution.

Witness Jonatan Burhoff told Dagens Nyheter he saw wounded people being carried to private cars that drove off 'as fast as possible.'

Malmo is Sweden's third largest city and has a population of 340,000.