Joy Bernard breaks down after visiting the scene where her son, 26-year-old vendor Orville Taylor, was shot and killed at his stall in the Jubilee market, Orange Street, near Parade, downtown Kingston, yesterday. - Norman Grindley/Deputy Chief Photographer

The Denham Town police had their hands full yesterday as the division registered three murders within hours of each other.

Between Wednesday night and yesterday, two men were gunned down in Kingston west.

Up to late yesterday both males were still unidentified.

The police also removed the body of a woman from a barrel in the Calvary Cemetery in Admiral Town. The body, which was wrapped in a sheet, was hidden among items of clothing.

The police have commenced a probe into the circumstances surrounding the shooting death of the unidentified men.

Reports from the Constabulary Communication Network are that one of the men was killed at Lamoth Lane off Maxfield Avenue. He is of dark complexion, medium build, about 188 centimetres tall and was dressed in a green T-shirt, blue shorts, blue jeans pants and a pair of black and white Reebok sneakers.

In addition, the St. Andrew South police also reported the shooting death of Tyrone Harvey of Mahoney Road, Kingston 11. The 18-year-old man was killed at Rosalie Avenue in the Corporate Area on Wednesday. Five rounds of ammunition were found on the body.

Murdered by his stall

Orville Taylor,a 26-year-old vendor, was murdered by his stall in the Jubilee market on Orange Street, downtown Kingston. The Kingston Central police are investigating.

At the same time, in an effort to quell the upsurge of violence and political tension, representatives of the Jamaica Labour Party's Area Council One and the People's National Party's Region Three are to meet this afternoon.

According to a release from the office of Kingston Mayor, Desmond McKenzie, the meeting, scheduled for the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston, is as a result of increasing media reports of rising tensions in the Corporate Area - mainly in South East St. Andrew, East St. Andrew and some areas of the North St. Andrew.

"We needed to meet as quickly as possible to look at the situation and devise some strategy to deal with the issues," the release said.