49 killed in violence in Jamaica

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Harun Ur Rashid, chairman and managing director of Asian Group of Industries, receiving a CIP Card from Commerce Minister GM Quader at a city hotel recently.

MEXICO CITY, May 27 (Xinhua): The clashes between Police and people related to the Jamaican drug trafficker Christopher "Dudus" Coke have killed at least 49 people by Wednesday in Kingston, Jamaica's capital.
According to information reaching here, the security forces have not been able to control the districts of Tivoli Gardens and West Kingston in Jamaica's capital.
The clashes in Jamaica began on Sunday when Jamaica's Prime Minister Bruce Golding announced that Coke would be extradited to the United States. After four days of clashes in Kingston, the violence still continues.
Meanwhile, Political Ombudsman Herro Blair said that "there are 35 corpses of civilians in the morgue and when we got there last night other nine corpses were picked up in the ambulances."
Some 300 men were detained by the police and their current situation is unknown, said Blair, who is Jamaica's most prominent evangelical pastor.
The United States requested in August 2009 Coke's extradition, but the Jamaican authorities delayed the decision till last week.
On Sunday the Jamaican government declared emergency state in many districts of Kingston after a group of armed men attacked police station and shot the policemen.
Jamaica Sunday declared a state of emergency in parts of its capital city of Kingston after suspected supporters of a notorious drug lord attacked several police stations in retaliation for a government move to extradite him to the United States.