Jamaican capital riven by second day of violence

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.

Police and soldiers came under heavy fire at the West Kingston stronghold of Christopher “Dudus” Coke, charged in the US with drug and arms trafficking. Authorities said two officers had been killed and at least six wounded since Sunday, and at least one Jamaican soldier was shot dead during the latest fighting.

Hundreds of security agents attacked Coke’s barricaded base of Tivoli Gardens in a co-ordinated operation against drug gangsters whose arsenals rival police firepower.