A gunman has opened fire at a mosque in Istanbul just hours after the Turkey nightclub massacre, Mirror Online reported on Sunday.

Terrified worshippers were forced to flee as the gunman opened fire in the Hasan Pasha Mosque in the north of the city this afternoon.

According to reports in Turkey, two people were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Investigators do not believe the incident is political - despite the shooting happening just hours after an unknown gunman massacred 39 people in a sickening attack on a nightclub.

Source: MENA