THREE men were killed and six others injured in a shoot-out in the Red Hills Road area yesterday morning, the police are reporting.

The Constabulary Communication Network (CCN) identified the dead men as brothers Everton and Anthony Simpson, and Ezra Patrick.

The CCN did not know the ages of the men.

Sergeant Jubert Llewellyn of the CCN was unable to give the condition of the injured at press time. He said there was no clear motive for the shootings which took place in the morning at neighbouring Donmair Close, Black Ants Lane and Lemon Lane.