The Women’s Affairs Bureau (WAB) says this is a time of testing for the families of the victims of the massacre at Lusignan and the nation as a whole.

And the WAB urged in a press release on Friday that in this time of grief and sorrow everyone must unite as a nation and avoid violence.

The WAB further called on the police and all other security forces to utilize all available resources to capture the perpetrators of the slayings and to go further by ridding the streets of violence, violent gangs and guns.

Asserting that the eleven persons who were gunned down “did not deserve to die at the hands of these savages,” the WAB observed that no one can ever understand how the victims’ families feel, and the pains they are experiencing.

The organization, stating categorically that this unimaginable act which ended the lives of women, men and children could not be condoned, also offered its sincerest condolences to the surviving family members, relatives and friends and prayed that God would give them all the grace and strength to bear their sorrow.