Two Haitian Americans are among more than a dozen arrested in Haiti in connection with the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, CNN reported, citing a top government source.
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In a Thursday afternoon press briefing with the country’s police chief, Haiti’s acting president Claude Joseph called on citizens to round up others. Officials in Port au Prince said seven men had been killed in gunfights with security forces.
“I am asking that the population hand over anyone they capture to the police because, if not, we won’t know what really happened,” the prime minister said. “We need to understand the motives of these people. We can’t let this action go unpunished.”
As Haiti reeled following the first assassination of a serving president in the Americas since John F Kennedy’s 1963 shooting, there were chaotic scenes in the capital, Port-au-Prince, on Thursday. Angry civilians reportedly apprehended two male suspects while police laid siege to two buildings in which other suspected assassins were supposedly holed up.
“They killed the president! Give them to us. We’re going to burn them!” the pair’s captors chanted as they delivered the men to police, according to the Associated Press.
Footage posted on social media showed two bedraggled men being bundled through the streets of Port-au-Prince by locals, one with his hands bound behind his back with white cords. Members of the throng reportedly torched several bullet-riddled vehicles they believed belonged to the suspects.
Police try to control the crowd gathered outside the police station as six suspects have been arrested and seven killed. All photos embedded from Nairaland
One of the men detained by Haitian police on suspicion of being involved in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Embeded photos, from Nairaland
The two men were reportedly found hiding in bushes by civilians who roughed them up before turning them over to police
Six ‘assassins’ have been arrested and seven killed over the murder of Haiti president Jovenel Moïse, police said. The bodies of two of the people killed by police are pictured being transported away in a police vehicle
The critically-injured Martine Moise was flown to Miami and then taken by air ambulance to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami for treatment after she was shot alongside her husband
