EIGHT suspects have been arrested over the fatal shooting of an eight-year-old British girl on holiday in Jamaica.
Imani Green was killed when a gunman opened fire at her cousin's shop in the rural village of Duncans on Friday.
Three of her relatives are recovering in hospital after they were wounded in the hail of bullets.
Police believe the killing could have been a revenge attack by gangsters on the Caribbean island.
Imani, who suffered from the blood condition sickle cell anaemia, is not believed to have been the target.
Deputy Superintendent Steve Brown, from the Jamaica Constabulary Force, said eight suspects were being questioned.
He has dismissed suggestions linking the shooting to gang warfare.
"Over the last 24 hours there have been some developments where the police have taken eight persons into custody and we're confident we will make a breakthrough on this one very soon," he told the BBC.
"We've heard about gang warfare but we find it a bit difficult to believe because where the incident took place it is a sleepy community, nothing happens there.
"This is just an isolated incident but it could well link to a number of things and we are looking at all possibilities and following all the leads that we are getting."
Imani, from Balham in south London, was shot twice in Friday's attack - once in the head and once in the shoulder.
She had been given extended leave from Fircroft Primary School in Tooting to visit Jamaica and take advantage of the warmer climate.
She was attending a local primary school while on the island and had been due to return to the UK on January 25.
Her grandmother Sandra Fisher said she found Imani lying in a "pool of blood" after she asked to visit the grocery shop in the quiet Red Dirt district of Duncans in Trelawny parish.
Imani's sister, Janella Parmer, told the BBC: "We heard gunshots. We ran outside and shouted 'Imani, Imani, Imani'.
"I picked her up off the ground and realised she was still breathing. I flagged down a car and they drove us to hospital. The rest is history."
The high command of Jamaica's police force said Imani was "mercilessly slaughtered in front of family members in a hail of bullets as gangsters sought to exact revenge on their rivals".
The island's government said police were conducting an "extensive investigation into the matter and will expend every effort to ensure that the perpetrator is apprehended and brought to justice".
It has been suggested Imani might have been the victim of a feud over an illegal lottery scam, the attack being a reprisal for a shooting last year.
The racket, which reportedly involves duping Americans into believing they have scooped the lottery and asking them to wire an "advance fee" to collect their winnings, has been linked to more than 500 murders over the past five years.
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