There was conflicting information about the identities of the dead, and uncertainty about whether the reports were accurate, but the victims were said to have included an old woman, or possibly an old man, and a twelve-year-old girl.

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Four men have been arrested over an "unprovoked attack" on youths in which a 15-year-old boy and girl were injured by up to twelve men in Manchester.

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