By Andreas Preuss
CNN
TRINIDAD — Trinidad and Tobago’s capital city is on alert after a brazen prison escape that involved explosives and a deadly shootout with police.
Police say three inmates broke out of Port of Spain jail Friday afternoon. One prison guard was killed in the shootout with the escapees. Constable Sherman Maynard, 27, died from gunshot wounds in the attack.
Meanwhile, police say they shot and killed one of the inmates, Allan “Scanny” Martin, on the grounds of Port of Spain’s General Hospital.
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