At least 29 people, most of them cilivians, have been killed in Jamaica's capital amid an all-out police assault on a suspected drug lord's stronghold, the island's government reported.

Two police officers, one soldier with the Jamaican Defense Force and 26 civilians have died in a protracted push that began Monday, Information Minister Daryl Vaz said. Another 25 civilians have been wounded, along with six Jamaican troops.

Security forces have been fighting people who want to prevent the extradition to the United States of Christopher "Dudus" Coke, who was charged last year in U.S. federal court with conspiracy to distribute marijuana and cocaine and with conspiracy to traffic in firearms illegally.

Twenty-six of the dead were civilians, and one was a Jamaican Defense Force member; 25 civilians and six defense force members were injured as security forces battled criminal elements in Tivoli Gardens and Denham Town, officials said.

A woman in the area said that the front of her house had been "shot up" and that police had taken away her nephew and grandson for questioning. They did not say how long her relatives would be detained.

Violet Dias, an American citizen from New York, said she was locked down in her house because of the assault.

"We can't even look out," she said. "We have no food. We can't get anything to eat."

Dias, an amputee and an asthmatic, is due to return to the U.S. on June 14.

The government said those killed were mostly males and their bodies were recovered from areas close to barricades, building entrances and gullies coursing through Tivoli Gardens. It said 211 people, including six women, were detained.

Security forces have confiscated firearms, ammunition, binoculars, army fatigues and ballistic vests and are conducting searches, the government said.

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