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Police are trying to ascertain the motive behind this morning’s attack at the Mandeville Market, in which seven people were shot, two of them fatally.
Preliminary reports are that shortly after 10:00 AM, two men accessed the market from the back entrance and started shooting at persons in the facility.
When the shooting subsided, seven people were found suffering from gunshot wounds.
Two people, a man and a woman, were later pronounced dead.
The woman has been identified as Melissa Merchant, of Warwick in Asia, Manchester.
The identity of the deceased man has not been revealed.