At least two individuals had been killed and others injured on Tuesday when armed males opened hearth on a bunch of journalists who gathered for a authorities press convention set to announce the reopening of Haiti’s largest public hospital, a witness to the assault informed Reuters.
A journalist and a police officer had been killed on the scene, the witness mentioned.
Haiti’s nationwide police didn’t instantly reply to Reuters’ request for data.
The transitional presidential council mentioned in a submit on Facebook that the act wouldn’t go with out penalties.
“We specific our sympathy to all of the victims’ households, particularly, to the Haitian National Police and all of the journalists’ associations,” it mentioned.
Journalists had been invited to reach on the hospital from 8 a.m. (1300 GMT) to the press convention within the downtown space of the capital Port-au-Prince with Haiti’s new well being minister. They had been nonetheless awaiting the minister when capturing started round 11 a.m.
Health Minister Duckenson Lorthe Blema was put in late November in a cupboard re-shuffle when former Prime Minister Garry Conille was ousted after simply six months in workplace.
The State University of Haiti Hospital, recognized regionally because the General Hospital, is the nation’s largest public hospital nevertheless it has been closed since a March surge in gang assaults that noticed former Prime Minister Ariel Henry ousted from energy.
