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Haiti police seize more suspects in president’s killing

Haiti police seize more suspects in president’s killing

ANDRE PAULTRE and ROBENSON SANON HAITI’S police seized at least two more suspected members of the gang of assassins that killed President Jovenel Moise, following a fierce battle that left bullets strewn in the streets of the capital. Hundreds of residents clamoured outside the police station where suspects were being held in Port-au-Prince, shouting "burn them" and setting fire to a vehicle they presumed was that of the assassins, according to footage streamed by Haitian media outlets. Moise, 53, was shot dead early on Wednesday at his home by what officials said was a commando of trained killers, pitching the…
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Haitian assassins falsely claimed to be U.S. drug agents, envoy to U.S. says

Haitian assassins falsely claimed to be U.S. drug agents, envoy to U.S. says

DAPHNE PSALEDAKIS and DOYINSOLA OLADIPO GUNMEN who assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise falsely identified themselves as agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Haitian ambassador to the United States has said, citing video footage the government has in its possession. "No way they were DEA agents," Bocchit Edmond told Reuters in an interview hours after Moise was shot dead and his wife was wounded by unidentified gunmen in their private residence overnight, stirring fears of a breakdown in order in the impoverished Caribbean nation, already reeling from rampant gang violence and facing a constitutional crisis. People walk past…
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