Soldiers standing guard are seen through the tinted window of a bus during a media tour organized by government authorities Thursday inside the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood in Kingston. After a raid in this slum that left dozens dead in four days of gunbattles, the reputed drug kingpin who was the target remains at large.

Kingston, Jamaica ? Jamaican security forces kicked down doors and arrested dozens of people in a bullet-pocked slum Thursday, and said the death toll from four days of fighting sparked by the search for a reputed drug lord has risen to 73.

The target of the manhunt, Christopher “Dudus” Coke, was nowhere to be found. He is sought by the United States on drug and arms trafficking charges, and the U.S. Justice Department calls him one of the world’s most dangerous drug kingpins.

“We are still searching for Mr. Coke,” Deputy Police Chief Glenmore Hinds said. “Certainly we can’t disclose where we are looking.”

He said Coke’s offices were found in the heart of the Tivoli Gardens slum, but would not say what authorities found there.

Hinds said police and soldiers had found 73 “civilian” bodies, three of which might not have been killed in incidents related to the raid. He said three security officers were also killed in battles with gunmen loyal to Coke, who had nine months to prepare for an escape while Jamaica’s prime minister wavered over U.S. demands for his extradition.

Authorities sought to reassure the public about the ability and willingness of authorities to control Kingston’s downtown slums.

They also stressed that mostly men had died in the shootouts, but refused to provide specific breakdowns and the tally could not be independently confirmed.

The worst bloodshed was in Tivoli Gardens, Coke’s ramshackle base in West Kingston, where roughly 35 international journalists — including three from The Associated Press — were escorted Thursday by soldiers during an hour-long tour.

In the battle-scarred neighborhood, visibly anxious residents, mostly women and children, said they were relieved the fighting was apparently over but accused authorities of playing down casualty figures. Many looked warily at soldiers when they talked with journalists and accused security forces of shooting innocents.

“They kill my baby pickney!” a woman shouted to reporters, using the patois word for child while standing in a cluster of people near a large mural showing Prime Minister Bruce Golding, who Coke helped to win elected office and represents West Kingston in Parliament.

Another woman, who said she did not feel safe providing her name, lashed out at the government for approving the raid on Tivoli Gardens, where graffiti can be seen reading “Vote for Bruce” and “JLP” — the prime minister’s Jamaica Labour Party.

“Not everybody is guilty living in here! A lot of innocent people died,” the woman told AP reporters, adding that she huddled at home with her two children while shooting raged outside.