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A late-night down­pour at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah brought this year’s Na­tion­al Car­ni­val King semi­fi­nal to an abrupt end.

The T&T Car­ni­val Bands As­so­ci­a­tion stopped the com­pe­ti­tion as rain be­gan when on­ly five of the 20 com­peti­tors had crossed the stage.

The As­so­ci­a­tion said it took the de­ci­sion to en­sure the safe­ty of the mas­quer­aders and to pro­tect the struc­tur­al in­tegri­ty of their al­ready rain-drenched cos­tumes.