A WAVE of murders has swept across the country in the past 24 hours, with separate incidents taking the lives of a 14-year-old boy in Belmont, a 34-year-old woman in Enterprise, Chaguanas, and an unidentified man in Matura.

In the first incident, Zion Roberts, 14, a student of Success Laventille Secondary was shot dead near his Belmont home, while a 24-year-old man was also injured in the shooting.

Police said around 10.10 am on July 4 they received a report of two people being shot at Serraneau Road.