A shooting in Northern Ireland has left a woman and two children dead and a man seriously wounded. Police have not indicated a motive but a local assembly member described it as a domestic incident.

Detectives from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) named the three victims in the incident in Maguiresbridge on Wednesday as Vanessa Whyte, 45, a veterinary surgeon originally from Co Clare, her daughter Sara Rutledge, 13, and son James Rutledge, 14.

Vanessa Whyte and her two children James and Sara were killed following the fatal shooting incident in Northern Ireland early on Wednesday morning. Police are investigating