Crime scene
May 15, 2016
Cop among two killed in Haiti
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — At least two people, including a police officer, were killed yesterday after a group of gunmen attacked a police station in Les Cayes, in Haiti’s remote southern peninsula, a senior police officer has confirmed.
Chief Police Inspector Octave Jean said that one of the gunmen had also been killed and another was wounded.
The police said that the dead gunman and the other attackers were wearing faded green uniforms that appeared to be from Haiti’s disbanded military.
In recent months, there have been increases in clashes involving ex-soldiers of the army that was disbanded in 1995.
Earlier this month, a group of mostly young men wearing green uniforms blocked an entrance to Haiti’s defence ministry.
