Disturbing footage has emerged from inside a Sydney kebab shop, showing the moment two masked gunmen open fire on those inside.

Scores of police are still hunting the duo who shot three people in Monday’s “shockingly brazen” daylight shooting on the busy shopping strip in Sydney’s west.

The footage shows them entering the M Brothers kebab shop in the western suburb of Auburn just after 1pm on Monday and firing eight shots.

One man, 26, was hit in the arm and shoulder, a 25-year-old man was shot in the face and an innocent bystander – a 47-year-old woman who worked at M Brothers – suffered two torso wounds.

It was the eighth shooting in Sydney’s escalating gangland war in six weeks.

The victims remain in Westmead Hospital. The first two are said to be in a stable condition, while the second man is in a serious condition.

Police have said the 26-year-old victim – widely named across media as underworld figure Samimjan Azari – was believed to be the subject of two previous attempts on his life.

They have declined to confirm he was the man shot in Auburn, but have referred to news reports identifying Azari, an associate of the Alameddine crime family, as the target of the attack.

He has reportedly survived shootings at Brighton-Le-Sands and, just last month, at Granville.

Azari had reported for bail at the Auburn police station, just 750 metres away, about an hour earlier.

A black SUV – believed to be a getaway vehicle from the kebab shop shooting – was found alight about 6pm on Monday.

Two more cars were found alight about 3.15am on Tuesday in nearby Merrylands and Greystanes. Neighbours helped police to extinguish the latter vehicle.

The car fires have been linked to gangland violence, but police are yet to confirm links to Monday’s shooting. Officers from Taskforce Falcon, which is probing the Auburn shootings, is assisting with the investigation into the burned-out cars.

Political leaders have condemned the gangland violence.

“This is just vicious, disgusting behaviour from complete animals,” Premier Chris Minns told Sydney radio 2GB on Tuesday.

“Their disregard for human life, for people who are innocent bystanders, is appalling.

“It just churns your stomach to believe that there are people out there that would pursue this kind of crime.”

NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley said some of the best detectives in Australia were assigned to Taskforce Falcon.

It was set up in late May amid a wave of shootings across Sydney between warring criminal gangs. About 100 detectives have joined another 50 officers in the mega taskforce set up to curb gun violence in the city after eight public shootings in six weeks.

“My message to anyone out there going to be doing these place-based shootings on our streets – the police will get you and they will lock you up for a very long time, as they should,” Catley said.

“It is one thing for criminals to be shooting each other but when innocent people get caught up in this, it is absolutely abhorrent.”

She said her thoughts were with those injured in Monday’s violence, which had “no place in our community”.

“It’s horrifying, it’s unacceptable and it shakes the sense of safety we all deserve,” she said.

Opposition Leader Mark Speakman urged action to prevent such shootings from becoming the “new normal”.

“Every community in NSW deserves to feel safe, and we need to come down hard on the criminals who think they can run the show,” Speakman said.

In the most shocking recent public shooting, innocent plumber John Versace was executed in his driveway in a case of mistaken identity.

Police are still searching for the men behind the 23-year-old’s murder on May 19.

Police and government officials have hosed down suggestions authorities are losing control of the streets.

Minns said 20 of the 25 organised-crime-related murders in NSW since 2021 had resulted in arrests.

“That history proves you’ll be caught and if you’re caught, the full force of the law will apply to you,” he said.

-with AAP