KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Gunmen driving a car shot and killed a police officer near Jamaica's capital Saturday, the 11th officer slain this year, police said.
Const. Peter Nembhard was driving home shortly after midnight when several men drove up and opened fire in Passage Fort, a town outside Kingston, said Oliver Livingston, a police spokesman.Nembhard, a member of a special anti-crime task force, died at the hospital of a single gunshot wound.
Also Saturday, a group of men stabbed another police officer in the chest at an outdoor dance in the eastern town of Moran Bay, police said. The officer was in stable condition.
Police said they were investigating the attacks.
There have been more than 1,200 slayings this year in the former British Caribbean territory of 2.6 million people, up from 1,045 last year.
Police blame much of the violence on street gangs vying for control of lucrative drug and extortion rings.
Ten police officers were killed last year.
