An eight-year-old girl from London has been shot dead while on holiday in Jamaica.
Imani Green was inside a shop in the rural north coast town of Duncans when a man entered the store on Friday and an argument broke out.
Police said the man then opened fire, shooting at people inside.
Imani, who is from Balham, south London, was hit and died later in hospital. Three other people are being treated for their injuries.
The BBC's Nick Davis in Kingston said Imani and her mother and sister had been staying with relatives in Duncans.
They arrived on the island on 27 December and are thought to have been planning to return to the UK at the end of the month.
'Reprisal shooting'After the shooting, Imani's sister Janella Parmer said: "We heard gunshots. We ran outside and shouted 'Imani, Imani, Imani'.
"I picked her up off the ground and realised she was still breathing.
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"I flagged down a car and they drove us to hospital."
Imani is understood to have been hit twice, once in the head.
The three other victims, believed to be two women and a man, are now said to be in a stable condition in hospital.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, Nick Davis said Duncans was seen as a "sleepy town and a backwater".
The shooting had "really come as a shock to that local community, crime is pretty much unheard of", he said.
The area also recorded the second lowest figure for murder in Jamaica last year, he added.
Police said there were a number of lines of inquiry but one theory was that the shooting was in reprisal for an earlier gun attack.
The Foreign Office confirmed it had been providing consular assistance and liaising with local authorities since the shooting on 11 January.
Peter Kellond, the British Honorary Consul for Montego Bay, said: "This is obviously a desperately sad event and we are providing consular support to the family and other relatives."
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