An official with a Chinese engineering firm says four people were ambushed and killed after leaving a company office in central Jamaica.
Zhong Dong Tang is a regional director with China Harbour Engineering Company, which is working on a major highway project on the Caribbean island.
In a statement yesterday, he said four people were "senselessly gunned down" on Sunday shortly after leaving the company's site office in the town of Linstead. The Chinese company is vowing to work with police to bring the killers to justice.
A spokeswoman says the victims were Jamaican nationals. Police officials did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
In a report on global homicides released earlier this year, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime listed Jamaica as having the world's sixth highest homicide rate.
