Police yesterday blocked all roads leading to the Princes Town Magistrate Court after receiving a phone call that a bomb was planted in the court and would be detonated.

The Fire services were called in.

News Power Now understands that the situation caused a traffic backup for miles.

Separately, a sanitation worker of the Chaguanas Borough Corporation was killed in Central Trinidad yesterday morning. The victim has been identified as 28-year-old Zeneele Wheeler.

Reports say he was cutting grass along Rita Street, Enterprise, in the company of other co-workers just after 7 o’clock, when a gunman approached him and fired several shots.

Wheeler, of Walcott Lane, Chaguanas, was struck and collapsed in a drain. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

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