SHOOTING IN WALSALL, TWO DEAD

Two people have been arrested after a man and woman were shot dead at a house in the Midlands in the early hours of this morning. In Pic- Crime scene: A policeman stands guard outside the house on Laneside Gardens believed to be where a man and a woman were gunned down in the early hours of this morning. Police swooped to arrest a 23-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman after the victims were discovered in a property on Laneside Gardens, Wallsall, West Midlands. Officers immediately cordoned off the property and the cul-de-sac as an investigation was launched into the circumstances of the deaths.Ambulance crews called police to the home at 1.37am after they found two people at the scene with serious gunshot wounds. Despite the best efforts of paramedics, both the man and the woman died at the scene.

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