(Christian Science Monitor) — With at least five people killed in the Jamaican capital of Kingston and gangsters close to alleged drug trafficker Christopher “Dudus” Coke threatening more Jamaica attacks, local officials sought to contain the spread of violence. Two days of fighting between drug gangs barricaded in the Kingston neighborhood of Tivoli Gardens and the police were sparked by plans to extradite Mr. Coke, the alleged leader of the Shower Posse to the US. The fighting has since spread to other poor neighborhoods in the capital. Coke is suspected of being holed up in Tivoli. The Shower Posse, a successful and violent Jamaican drug distributor, was suspected of killing hundreds in the 1980s.
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