3 Men Shot Dead on Trip to Visit Spiritual Healer
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Three suspected drug couriers were killed when they drove to an unfamiliar neighborhood of the Jamaican capital to pray with a spiritual healer for protection on a trip to England, police said.
The men were killed Tuesday in eastern Kingston, police said. Upon seeing the strangers, a group of men who had been sitting on a wall drinking beer retrieved hidden weapons and opened fire, police said.
Police suspect that the gunmen believed that the visitors had come to commit crimes.
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