A man is dead and a woman has serious injuries after what RCMP are calling a "targeted" shooting into a vehicle near Wellington in western Prince Edward Island.

A news release from Prince District RCMP said the incident happened around 8 p.m. AT on Friday, in the Urbainville area.

"A vehicle involved in the incident appears to have crashed into a ditch on this road, striking a telephone pole," said the news release, issued Saturday morning.

"An unidentified man, believed to be the driver, was pronounced dead at the scene and a 50-year-old Summerside woman was taken to Prince County Hospital with serious injuries."

The shooting happened on Route 125, the Hackmatack Road.

At about 10:30 p.m. Friday night, the RCMP sent out a news release saying that road and Wellington Road, Route 124,

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