KINGSTON, Jamaica — The People’s National Party (PNP) and the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) have both condemned last night’s shooting incident at the JLP mass rally in Sam Sharpe Square, Montego Bay.

The JLP’s General Secretary Dr Horace Chang says he has written to the Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown, PNP General Secretary Paul Burke and the Police Commissioner requesting an urgent meeting regarding the shooting.

Two people were shot dead during the incident while three others were injured, according to the police report.

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“Tonight my heart is heavy, I am terribly saddened by tonight’s unspeakable incident and my sympathy goes out to the families of those who lost their lives and my prayers are with those who were injured,” Opposition leader Andrew Holness said in a release Sunday night.

Holness, in condemning the “barefaced and heartless attack” said the perpetrators not only took two lives but also endangered the lives of tens of thousands of Jamaicans.

Meanwhile, PNP Campaign spokesperson Delano Franklyn said the incident “is doubly alarming in view of the appeal by Prime Minister and Party President Portia Simpson Miller for peace and calm during this election period as one of the major points in her speech at the huge and very peaceful meeting the PNP held in Half-Way Tree last Sunday”.

“This is a truly unfortunate and tragic situation and I repeat the Party President’s call for pea e between Jamaicans in this election period,” Franklyn added.

The JLP release noted that General Secretary Dr Horace Chang has written to the Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown, PNP General Secretary Paul Burke and the Police Commissioner requesting an urgent meeting.