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Shoppers were sent scampering yesterday afternoon as gunshots erupted in the car park of Long Circular Mall in St James, during which a suspected bandit was killed.

However, the gunshots were not the result of an attack by criminal elements, but rather from security guards who ran to help a ­woman who was being robbed at gunpoint by the suspect.

Police said that around 12.55 p.m., security guards were at the compound handling a cash delivery when they heard the screams of a woman.