Policemen retreat under heavy gunfire downtown
MEMBERS of the security forces were forced to retreat
this morning after gunmen opened fire at them as they tried to clear a
roadblock at Oxford Street in Downtown Kingston.
"Law men went to the area to clear a road block in the community when
they came under heavy gunfire," a police officer at the Hannah Town
police station told the Observer.
Meanwhile police at the Mountain View Police Post reported that they
had received threats that thugs aligned to Tivoli Gardens' don
Christopher 'Dudus' Coke were planing to fire bomb the post.
"We have been receiving a number of threats since this morning from
men who say they are planning to carry out an attack and firebomb our
station but we are on the lookout," said one cop.
The police could not confirm reports that men armed with high-powered
assault rifles were roaming sections of Mountain View Avenue.
The roving Observer news team drove the entire length of Mountain View Avenue and noticed only a tense calm.
source: the oobserver
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