Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) weekly Serious Crime Review is suggesting that an average of two persons have been killed every day,

Though the country's homicide rate took a nosedive last week, the Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) weekly Serious Crime Review is suggesting that an average of two persons have been killed every day, since the beginning of the month.

Up to yesterday, at least 28 persons were murdered.

The spate of killings this month continued yesterday, with a double murder which rocked a usually quiet farming community in the Bernard Lodge area of the South St Catherine Police Division, where the bodies of a man and a woman were discovered in separate huts.The police have identified the victims as 22-year-old Cordel Steer of Portmore, St Catherine, and Shelly-Ann Maxwell, 21, of Clifton district.

A Constabulary Communication Network report said the shooting was reported to the Portmore police about 3 a.m. Residents heard explosions and summoned the lawmen.

Allegations are that the killings might have been a reprisal for previous incidents that took place in and around the farming community.