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Dancer ‘Dhq Chicken’ killed in Manchester

Reading Time: < 1 minutePolice are probing the murder of a 26-year-old dancer, Brittania Francis, otherwise known as ‘Dhq Chicken’.

It is reported that Francis, who is a resident of the Brinkley district near Junction in St Elizabeth, was found suffering from gunshot wounds at a bar in the Richmond district in Manchester on Thursday morning.

A police report said that at about 1:30 am, Francis was at the bar in Richmond, south of Mandeville, along with the establishment’s operators, when they were closing up to leave, and loud explosions were heard.

Francis was found suffering from gunshot wounds, and one of the windows in the door of a Toyota Voxy was also shattered by a bullet.

She was rushed to the hospital, where she died while undergoing treatment.

Statistics from the police show that up to Saturday, May 3, there were five murders compared with 13 for the corresponding period last year in Manchester.

This latest incident increases the number of people murdered in the parish to six so far this year.