Jamaica violence kills 31 people

Thirty-one people, 28 of them civilians and three members of the security forces, have been killed in Jamaica in violence triggered by government moves to extradite an alleged drug lord to the United States, police said Tuesday.

Police Director of Communications Karl Angell said 26 of the civilians were killed, and 25 injured, in the teeming Tivoli Gardens slum of West Kingston which heavily-armed police assaulted on Monday, hunting for the wanted man, Christopher "Dudus" Coke. He was not found. (Reuters)