Fast-acting detectives gunned down three alleged hit men in the Salem Runaway Bay area, St Ann, on Wednesday night, June 11.

Reports reaching one876 are that the men were killed during a police operation near the busy commercial strip at Salem, east of Runaway Bay. The men have not yet been identified.

Detectives from the Counter Terrorism and Organized Crime investigation Branch (C-TOC) were acting on intelligence received that men were deployed to murder a bartender in the Salem/Runaway Bay area.

The men were trailed and put under surveillance, with support from St Ann police. They were tracked from the Edward Seaga Highway all the way to Salem. More than a dozen C-TOC operatives were involved in the operation.