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The mur­der toll con­tin­ued to climb yes­ter­day, af­ter two women were killed in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in Tacarigua and Arou­ca.

In the sec­ond in­ci­dent, a par­ty of North East­ern Di­vi­sion (NED) of­fi­cers rushed to the scene of a shoot­ing in which a preg­nant Venezue­lan woman was in­jured at Windy Hill, Arou­ca, by gun­men who were un­able to get to her com­mon-law hus­band.

The woman, who was lat­er iden­ti­fied as Anais Lopez, 31, of Mo­han Street, Pi­ar­co, was sev­en months preg­nant.