( CNN ) -- Security forces were burning the bodies of the dead this week in a Jamaican neighborhood ravaged by a failed attempt to arrest a suspected drug kingpin , according to residents , who said their entire neighborhood had been a war zone . Kingston 's deputy police commissioner , Glenmore Hinds , denied the reports . `` We have no evidence of any body been burned , '' Hinds said Thursday . `` There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that any of the bodies been burned . '' Jamaican authorities launched an all-out attempt to arrest Christopher `` Dudus '' Coke over the weekend , but they were met by barricades and gunfire that resulted in at least 67 deaths and the arrests of hundreds , mostly on weapons charges . `` Our best information is that he has not been arrested , '' Hinds said . `` His whereabouts , I can not tell you . '' Throughout the week , a discrepancy between the government 's body count and that of local media raised eyebrows . Some residents of Tivoli Gardens , where much of the violence was focused , told CNN they fear the authorities are trying to cover up its extent . None of the residents who spoke with CNN would agree to use their names , fearing reprisal from the authorities . One man told CNN on Wednesday he could see the burning from his window , which overlooks the front of the public works compound . `` I literally saw them wrap up men in sheets and put tires on them and burn them , '' one man told CNN . The men were already dead , he said . He said he was shocked by what he 'd seen . `` Never known Jamaica would become like this , '' he said , adding that he 'd seen soldiers searching houses to see who lives where and taking men and women outside to separate places . When the shooting started , he said he hid under his bed . `` We are decent people living here , and they are shooting everywhere , '' he said . Another resident called the violence a `` war '' and said she saw teenage boys picking up bodies . `` And they are not finished yet , '' she said . `` They say they have more bodies to collect . ... 70 maybe . '' `` Some of the bodies '' -- maybe 5 or 6 -- `` were burnt up '' by police , she said . By Wednesday , she said , `` War done . Nobody is here , just women , old people and little youths . '' Another man described police dragging people from their homes and beating them . `` Happened to me , too , '' said the Tivoli Gardens resident , who has since fled to another neighborhood . `` Kick me down in the gully and made dirty water enter my mouth . I am traumatized . '' `` Whole heap of people dead , '' he said . `` They are burning some bodies and sending the rest away , do n't know what they do with the rest . They are cleaning up . ... The police and military man . No war is going on in Tivoli , it 's just them alone . They are in there , in house on rooftops . They are cleaning up . They move all the sandbags and making it look like something else . The whole place mash up . '' He guessed he had seen 100 to 150 bodies , but could n't say for sure because of `` the way they were stacked up , nuff people dead . They are running them out in white vans , covering bodies in white sheets . '' All three residents said Tivoli Gardens is in ruins . Journalists reported being unable to get into the shattered neighborhood at the beginning of the week , but on Thursday , security forces whisked reporters through an area of Tivoli Gardens they said was under government control . There , the neighborhood was quiet but the buildings were pocked with bullet holes and the streets littered with the remains of barricades . The tour was fast , officials said , because the area remained volatile . Hinds said Thursday that 73 bodies had been recovered from the battle sites , but six , he said , may not have died from the violence . All , he said , were civilians . `` But civilians are sometimes gunmen and gunwomen , '' he said . CNN 's Christine Theodorou , Ben Brumfield , Rafael Romo and Nadine Drummond contributed to this report .
Officials deny any bodies have been found . Witnesses say hundreds of bodies lay in the streets . Official death count is at four . Police whisked through streets of Tivoli Gardens .