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A Laven­tille man was killed dur­ing a con­fronta­tion with po­lice in the cap­i­tal city on Wednes­day, while two firearms were re­cov­ered fol­low­ing the in­ci­dent.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied the dead man as An­der­son “El­mo” Ro­driguez, 31, of Pic­ton Road, Laven­tille.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF) were on mo­bile pa­trol along St Paul Street, East Dry Riv­er, Port-of-Spain, around 11.30 pm, when they stopped a sil­ver Elantra with three oc­cu­pants and a gold Nis­san Ti­i­da with two oc­cu­pants.