Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says sev­er­al peo­ple have been de­tained as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue in­to the mur­ders of four peo­ple, in­clud­ing a nine-year-old child, in Mor­vant on Sun­day.

The is­sue was raised by Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi, dur­ing the sit­ting of the Sen­ate yes­ter­day. Al-Rawi asked what im­me­di­ate mea­sures were be­ing im­ple­ment­ed to ad­dress the risk of reprisal killings fol­low­ing the sus­pect­ed gang-re­lat­ed at­tack.

The group—com­pris­ing the child, her un­cle and two oth­er peo­ple—was am­bushed and killed in what in­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve was a gang-re­lat­ed in­ci­dent.