by Akash Sama­roo, Mark Bas­sant and An­na-Lisa Paul

Three stu­dents were treat­ed for in­juries and men­tal trau­ma, af­ter a dri­ve-by shoot­ing on Bel­mont Cir­cu­lar Road Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

Two of the in­jured, aged 6 and 15, were the chil­dren of a known gang leader.

They were rushed to the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for emer­gency treat­ment.

The shoot­ing took place out­side the Prov­i­dence Girls Catholic School around 2.40 pm, less than 200 me­tres from the Bel­mont Po­lice Sta­tion.

An 18-year-old stu­dent was shot in her leg.

The tar­get, the 38-year-old James Gor­don of Mara­cas, was shot as he drove a white Hilux ve­hi­cle.

A vehicle belonging to a teacher was damaged as gunmen opened fire outside a school on Belmont Ciruclar Road on Wednesday. Photo by Akash Samaroo.

A se­nior in­ves­ti­ga­tor told Guardian Me­dia that based on the ini­tial in­for­ma­tion they ob­tained, a White Hilux was parked along the road­way when a black Hyundai Tuc­son heav­i­ly tint­ed pulled up along­side the Hilux ve­hi­cle.

The gun­men opened fire on the ve­hi­cle and al­so struck oth­er parked ve­hi­cles along the road­way as sev­er­al school chil­dren and oth­er pedes­tri­ans ran for cov­er.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter An­tho­ny Gar­cia has ex­pressed con­cern over the in­ci­dent.

Of­fi­cials at Bel­mont Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School, which is close by, said they were forced to lock their gates and didn't al­low stu­dents to leave un­til par­ents ar­rived.

Res­i­dents said the gun­shots sound­ed like they came from an au­to­mat­ic ma­chine gun.

Po­lice have put out an all-points-bul­letin for the ve­hi­cle be­lieved to have been dri­ven by the as­sailants.

Guardian Me­dia will up­date this sto­ry as more in­for­ma­tion be­comes avail­able.

Crime scene investigators at the scene of the shooting in Belmont on Wednesday. Photo by Akash Samaroo.