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Following bloodshed over his capture, Jamaican gang leader Christopher “Dudus” Coke arrived in New York City under tight security yesterday to face charges he flooded the East Coast with shipments of cocaine and marijuana, authorities said.

ALLEGED drug kingpin Christopher “Dudus” Coke was arrested by police on the outskirts of Kingston, peacefully ending a manhunt for the fugitive at the centre of last month’s deadly raids in the Jamaican capital.

Jamaica’s top police officer appealed for calm today after an alleged drugs baron was arrested.

Reputed gang leader Christopher “Dudus” Coke, who eluded a bloody police offensive in his slum stronghold last month, has surrendered to authorities in Jamaica, local news media has reported.

Jamaica’s top policeman vowed today to capture the reputed underworld boss who escaped a bloody four-day assault on his slum stronghold amid growing claims that innocent people died during the fighting.

Jamaican security forces kicked down doors and arrested dozens of people in a bullet-strewn slum and said the death toll from four days of fighting sparked by the search for a reputed drug lord had risen to 73.

THE overall death toll from four days of violence in Jamaica’s capital rose to 49 yesterday after the country’s ombudsman said he had tallied the bodies of 44 civilians killed in a police assault on an alleged drug lord’s stronghold.

Police claimed a tenuous hold over the Jamaican slum stronghold of a wanted gang leader today, but only after fighting that left at least 48 people dead.

Thousands of police and soldiers stormed the Jamaican ghettos where reggae was born in search of a reputed drug kingpin wanted by the United States, intensifying a third day of street battles that have killed at least 30 people.

Thousands of heavily armed police and soldiers barged past barricades into Jamaica's most violent slums today, clashing with die-hard defenders of a gang leader sought by the US, leaving at least 30 people dead.

Jamaica’s security forces clashed for a second day with masked gunmen allied with an alleged drug kingpin facing extradition to the US as fighting spread to more volatile slums around the capital.

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The toll of days of firefights between police and opposition supporters was marked in Jamaica by streets stained with blood, the hulks of burned-out vehicles, and the heat-bloated body of an elderly man, who had been shot in the back.

Jamaica’s leader ordered the entire army to be deployed across the island last night, trying to restore calm after three days of politically charged violence left at least 20 people dead.

Security forces and criminal gangs have continued gun battles in Jamaica's capital for a second-straight day.

Four people were killed in a gun battle between police and gang members in Jamaica’s capital Kingston, police said today.