An eight-year-old is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after apparently being shot in the head by her father, who then turned the gun on himself.
The body of a man - believed to be the girl's father - has been found in a car close to the scene of the shooting at an address in Spring Hill, in Northiam, near Rye, East Sussex.
Police say the death is not being treated as suspicious.
The girl has been taken to King's College Hospital where police say she is fighting for her life.
Chief Superintendent Neil Honnor said: "We are treating this as a tragic domestic incident and do not believe that anyone else is involved.
"At this stage we are not in a position to confirm the relationships of all those involved but we can say that the girl and the man knew each other. The man does not live at the address.
Northiam is near Rye in East Sussex "We are treating this as an isolated incident and there is no evidence that any other members of the public are at risk."
An earlier statement from the Sussex force said there was "no suggestion that the public are in danger" and that they were not looking for anyone else.
Armed officers were sent to the scene after the shooting, with scores of police cars surrounding an area cordoned off to the public.
Villager Anthony Burr, 37, lives near the scene of the shooting.
"I was in the living room and heard the sound of a firearm," he told Sky News.
"The sound of police sirens followed some minutes later."
He said a neighbour had told him the girl had been shot in the head.
"Obviously there was panic across Northiam, we all went into lockdown, shut doors, got the children in," he said.
"What transpired is what we feared, which is that a young girl, who was eight years old, was shot in the head."
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