Turks and Caicos po­lice say Hait­ian gangs are be­hind the first known mass shoot­ing in the British Over­seas Ter­ri­to­ry (BOT), which re­sult­ed in “a mass ca­su­al­ty” event on Sun­day.

Po­lice said that three peo­ple were killed and 10 oth­ers in­jured dur­ing the in­ci­dent that oc­curred at the Is­land Hookah Lounge on Lee­ward High­way, Prov­i­den­ciales. The iden­ti­ties of the de­ceased are be­ing with­held pend­ing for­mal no­ti­fi­ca­tion of next of kin.

The au­thor­i­ties are of­fer­ing a re­ward of US$10,000 for in­for­ma­tion re­sult­ing in the ar­rest of those re­spon­si­ble for the shoot­ing and the Roy­al Turks and Caicos Is­lands Po­lice Force is al­so urg­ing any­one with in­for­ma­tion to come for­ward through of­fi­cial chan­nels or anony­mous­ly via Crimestop­pers.