(Trinidad Express) A police officer and a suspected criminal were fatally shot, and another police officer was injured in Guapo, Point Fortin in the early hours of yesterday.
Police constable Krishna Banahar of the Siparia CID in the South-Western Police Division was pronounced dead at the hospital around 5.20 a.m.
The identity of the deceased suspected is not yet known, police said.
Another police officer was hospitalised.
The fatal shooting occurred on St Rose Street in Gonzales Village where Banahar and other police officers were on a police exercise.