Gangs and Guns Ravage Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹

The gang who shot up Anisa Rampersad’s home just after midnight could barely see in the pitch dark. With the firepower they had, they didn’t need to. In 60 seconds, they fired 53 rounds from three weapons, riddling her wooden shack with bullets. By the time they fled, four of her five children were dead.

“I woke up to loud explosions, and saw my older daughter’s room lighting up with sparks from the bullets,” Rampersad, 40, recalls. “We still don’t know why they came; people spread stories, but we weren’t involved in anything – no drugs, guns, nothing.”

The massacre in Arima, Trinidad – a satellite town of Trinidad and Tobago’s capital, Port of Spain – is part of an epidemic of gun violence that has swept what was once a Caribbean idyll. It is fuelled by a toxic mix of gangs, the drugs trade and the proliferation of high-powered firearms.

Read more here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/trinidad-and-tobago-gang-warfare-organised-crime/

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