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Family of three dies in car crash

MONTEGO BAY, St James - A two-year-old boy and his parents died as a result of injuries they sustained during a motor vehicle collision on the Rose Hall main road in St James, Tuesday night.The three have been identified as 40-year-old Mark Brown, his common-law wife Tangria Grant, also known as Paulette, and their son, Jamar, two, all of Sun Valley Road in Montego Bay.

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