Members of the Haitian police and forensics look for evidence outside of the presidential residence on July 7, 2021 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haiti President Jovenel Moise was assassinated and his wife wounded early July 7, 2021 in an attack at their home, the interim prime minister announced, an act that risks further destabilizing the Caribbean nation beset by gang violence and political volatility. Claude Joseph said he was now in charge of the country and urged the public to remain calm, while insisting the police and army would ensure the population’s safety.The capital Port-au-prince as quiet on Wednesday morning with no extra security forces on patrol, witnesses reported. Valerie Baeriswyl / AFP
(AFP) — Four “mercenaries” were killed and two taken into custody after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, police said Wednesday, adding that officers were conducting an operation in the capital Port-au-Prince.
“Four mercenaries were killed, two were intercepted under our control. Three policemen who had been taken hostage have been recovered,” said the director general of Haiti’s national police Leon Charles in a televised statement.
He said police pursued the assassins immediately after the attack on Moise and his wife, who survived, at their home in Port-au-Prince early Wednesday.
