Jamaica Violence Over Drug-Lord Extradition Kills 31 -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Thirty-one people, 28 of them civilians, have been killed in three days of violence in Jamaica triggered by government moves to extradite an alleged drug lord to the United States, police said on Tuesday.
Police Director of Communications Karl Angell said 26 civilians were killed and 25 injured in the teeming Tivoli Gardens slum of West Kingston, which heavily armed soldiers and police assaulted on Monday hunting for the wanted man, Christopher "Dudus" Coke. He was not found.
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