(Updated) Three Venezuelans held after death of cutlass-wielding attacker

A domestic dispute turned deadly on New Year's night when a 42-year-old man was tied up and beaten to death at a house in Macoya.

Police said Aarif Mohammed got into an argument with a female relative at their Charlieville, Chaguanas, home at around 9 pm on Friday.

During the argument, Mohammed reportedly beat the woman, a Venezuelan national, who left the house and went to her family home at Macoya Extension, Tunapuna.

Investigators said Mohammed went to the house armed with a cutlass but was confronted by three of the woman's male relatives, all Venezuelan nationals.

During the confrontation, Mohammed reportedly chopped one of the men on his hand but was eventually beaten and tied up.

Mohammed lost consciousness before the police arrived.

The men called the police who went to the house and took Mohammed to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope where he was declared dead on arrival.

The three men, ages 20, 24 and 49, were arrested. Homicide officers, Region II, are continuing enquiries. Police have not yet classified the killing as a murder and will await an autopsy on Mohammed's body scheduled for Monday at the Forensic Science Centre, in St James.