By John Myers, Jr, Staff Reporter 
A resident of the house, which was firebombed in Jones Town, south St. Andrew, yesterday, salvages sheets of zinc from the rubble. - RUDOLPH BROWN/Chief Photographer
SECTIONS OF the volatile inner-city community of Jones Town in south St. Andrew, were plunged back into their recurrent nightmare of gang warfare yesterday.
Four persons were left homeless, including two children, after a group of men armed with high-powered rifles invaded and bombed a house. The two-apartment board structure in a tenement yard near the border with Trench Town, was flattened in the resulting fire.
"Them shoot up the house first," a neighbour told The Gleaner. She said the gunmen kicked the door off the house, stole a television set and a fan and disconnected the electricity from the house before destroying it.
The gunmen told her to collect water in case her house caught fire, a neighbour said.
No one was injured in the incident which reportedly started about 9:00 a.m. Two shirtless youngsters were seen hurriedly pushing a cart laden with a large dresser, pillows and a mattress out of the community yesterday. The Gleaner was told, "We going to Rema because we can't take the violence."
The Police Force's information arm, the Constabulary Communication Network (CCN), said yesterday they were unable to give a motive for the latest flare-up of violence.
A relative of yesterday's victim said she would be moving from the area as the men have threatened to return to kill her sister. The woman said yesterday's incident was the continuation of a gang feud in the community.
GOOD FRIDAY FLARE-UP
On Good Friday, 12 people were killed and dozens injured when the feud came to the fore. The flare-up was reportedly triggered by the murder of Anthony 'Chuncie' Folkes, an alleged long-time friend of well-known area leader George Phang.
Her sister was close to a friend of Phang's, the family spokesperson said. She believes the five gunmen are opposed to Mr. Phang as they accused her sister of being an 'informer'.
Residents who lined the garbage-filled streets vented their disgust with the incident. One person said the violence had been continuing for six months and they wanted the intervention of Member of Parliament, Dr. Omar Davies, to help put a stop to it.
