THE unexplained and viscious knife attack on 77-year-old Cyrene Miller, as she made her way home along a country road Saturday, pushed to five the number of killings recorded on the weekend, her’s the only female.

The Constabulary Communication Network reports that late afternoon Miller was heading home from the market to Breadnut in St Elizabeth, when she was attacked at Cornwall.

She was stabbed multi-times and her throat slashed at about 4:15 pm.

The elderly woman died on the spot.

The police have no clues as to motive, nor whether she was attacked by one or more persons.

As the Maggotty police continue to investigate Miller’s murder, other detectives in St Elizabeth are also probing the shooting deaths of two men and the injury of another in Goshen.

Paul Sherman, 27, of Mitcham in Goshen, and Fitzroy Edwards, 19, from St Catherine were shot dead while playing dominoes at a shop in Mitcham.

CCN reports that two men drove up to the shop, alighted with guns and sprayed the domino players with bullets.

Another man, whom the police identify only as a 27-year-old from St Catherine, was also injured in the shootings and is hospitalised.

A fourth death was recorded in St Catherine but police are yet to identify the male body they discovered with gunshot wounds at Point Hill Saturday.

That same night, police in the capital found a taxi operator shot to death in his cab at Diamond Road, Kingston 11.

The police got reports that two men drove the Toyota Corolla, licensed PA 9469, to Diamond Road at about 9:00 pm and left in another car.

Granville Coke, 30, who was from Manchester, was found on the back seat of the car by the police who responded to calls.

The police blotters also recorded the road death of a 28-year-old motorcyclist on Brunswick Avenue in the St Catherine capital Spanish Town, who collided with an International truck heading toward Bog Walk. The police say the cyclist, Winston Taylor, was entering Brunswick Avenue from a side road when the collision occurred.

Operation Kingfish also reported a 98-kilogramme ganja find on a boat at Annotto Bay, St Mary Friday night, in a combined narcotics police/JDF coast guard operation, but refused to comment on the boat’s location at the time of the seizure. Three crew members were held.

“We are not prepared to say whether the boat was moving,” said Kingfish spokesman Sergeant Steve Brown.

“We have seized the drug and three men are currently being questioned by narcotics agents.”

Police say the boat was destined for Haiti.