THE MURDER toll in The Bahamas for this year according to The Tribune's records rose to 54 in the early hours of this morning when a man was shot dead outside a Nassau nightclub.

Police report that shortly after 1.30am on Sunday, a man was sitting on the rear of a truck leaving a club at East Street and Gibbs Corner when a male armed with a handgun walked up and shot him in the chest before fleeing on foot. The driver of the truck rushed the man to hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.

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