Two people have died and two others were seriously injured in a shooting incident in Co Fermanagh this morning.
Emergency services received a call about an incident in a house in the Drummeer Road area of Maguiresbridge at around 8.20am.
On arrival, ambulance crews and police found four people with gunshot wounds inside the property.
Two of the victims, a woman and a child were pronounced dead at the scene.
The two others, a man and a child, were treated for serious injuries before being taken to hospital.
The man was airlifted by air ambulance to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast and the child was taken to the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen.
Police are not seeking anyone else in connection with the incident.
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The PSNI said the Drummeer Road is closed and there is no ongoing risk to the public.
Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill said she is “absolutely heartbroken by the news from Maguiresbridge”.
In a post on X, she said she has no doubt the community will come together and “support one another through this incredibly difficult time”.
UUP MLA for Fermanagh and South Tyrone Diana Armstrong said her “thoughts are with the families of those affected and with everyone in this rural local community as they come to terms with this tragedy”.
She urged that people “allow space for the investigation to proceed and respect the privacy of those involved at this difficult time.”
Sinn Féin MP Pat Cullen said she is in contact with the PSNI on the situation and urged people “to not speculate on the details of this tragic and shocking incident.”
Speaking on RTÉ’s News at One, she described the area as a “very, very close-knit, rural community, mostly a farming community, but one where everyone will know each other, so you can imagine how the people must feel here, learning this when they woke up”.
Ms Cullen, who was a former General-Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing said her thoughts were also with the paramedics and doctors who arrived on the scene this morning “and what it must have been like for them”.
She said they are “so expert in what they do that they would have moved into that space of just immediately dealing with the injured people that they found in the home this morning”.
“But when you come away as a nurse or a doctor or indeed a paramedic, it remains with you for an awful long time, if it ever leaves you, so my thoughts and prayers are with them,” she said.
Watch: DUP MLA Deborah Erskine says the community is shocked following the incident