ISTANBUL: Turkish pop singer Hacer Tulu and a businessman were shot dead at a nightclub in the popular Aegean resort of Bodrum early Thursday, reports said.

An assailant or assailants opened fire on businessman Mehmet Ali Surensoy, who ran nightclubs in Bodrum and Istanbul, outside the Medusa club in the Gumbet district west of the town center, the Dogan news agency said.

Tulu, who was at the nightclub at the time of the shooting just before dawn, was also shot and killed, it added.

It was not immediately clear whether she had been deliberately targeted or was caught in the crossfire, with initial reports suggesting she had been accidentally hit.