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A po­lice raid at a Cunu­pia Church ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing led to a shoot-out and ul­ti­mate­ly the deaths of a 52-year-old man and his son, po­lice said.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit vis­it­ed the Com­mu­ni­ty Bible Church on Per­sad Av­enue, off Mon Plaisir Road, around 5.10 am to ar­rest two men as part of on­go­ing ex­tor­tion in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

On en­ter­ing the com­pound, how­ev­er, of­fi­cers were shot at by peo­ple in­side the fa­cil­i­ty.