PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Two members of the Trinidad and Tobago Air Guard were burnt to death after the vehicle in which they were passengers burst into flames after crashing into a concrete culvert in St Augustine, yesterday.

Police said Jamaal Anthony 23 and Jamal Edwards, 24, were returning home after celebrating Edwards’ birthday.

The two men had late last month successfully completed military training together.

Meanwhile, police are investigating the murder of a 65-year-old woman and her 30 year-old son whose bodies were found at their home in Arima, along the east west corridor yesterday.

Police said that the family’s pitbull had also been chopped several times about the body and killed. The authorities have no motive for the killings, but residents in the area said they believe that the murders may have been as a result of a legal squabble over property.

Police said they had received a call from neighbours after they saw the dog dead in the yard.

On entering the home they found the bodies of Kevon White, a fire officer and his mother, Linis.

Investigators said that the woman’s husband, a retired police officer, lives abroad.