Jamaican P.M. in gun-battle
NZPA-Reuter Kingston > Eleven people, including two children, were killed yesterday as violence surrounding Jamaica's parliamentary election continued. The two children were caught by cross-fire in al gun-battle between suppor-] ters of the ruling People’s] National Party led by the 1 Prime Minister (Mr Michael; Manley) and the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party. A third child was wounded.
The police said that Mr! -Manley, who will be running for a third term in office in; the election next Thursday,, was shot at during the in-l cideht.
The most prominent death iso far was that of Royj i McGann, a junior Minister] in the Government and a> candidate for the Left-bf-, centre governing party, who was killed last Tuesday. He will be given an official funeral today in his constituency of Mavis Bank. Some 500 people are estimated to have died in politically motivated violence this year.
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