State of emergency after attacks by supporters of man sought by U.S
Associated Press
A police station in West Kingston, Jamaica is seen burning in this image taken from video on May 23. Jamaica declared a state of emergency in two parishes after shooting and firebomb attacks on police stations by suspected supporters of an alleged drug lord who faces extradition to the United States. (picture)
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Masked men torched a police station and traded gunfire with security forces in a patchwork of barricaded slums in Jamaica's capital Sunday, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency.
Sporadic gunshots rang out in gritty West Kingston where defiant supporters of Christopher "Dudus" Coke, a Jamaican "don" sought by the U.S. on drug and arms trafficking charges, turned his Tivoli Gardens neighborhood and other areas into a virtual fortress with trashed cars and barbed wire.
In barricaded Hannah Town, close to Tivoli Gardens, black smoke spiraled into the sky from a police station set aflame by molotov cocktails.
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