Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a shooting incident at the Piarco International Airport which left a man dead on April 17, mere days after the end of a three and a half month state of emergency in Trinidad and Tobago.

Sources said at just before 2.30 am, a man who has not yet been identified was walking toward a waiting black SUV at the airport, having just arrived on a flight.

As he got into the vehicle, gunmen ran up to it and opened fire. The man died at the scene while another man occupying the car ran to safety at the Customs and Excise Unit area.