With Agency Report
Haiti police say about four suspects have been killed and two others arrested after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise.
Three police officers were temporarily captured but have since been released, police chief Leon Charles said in a TV broadcast.
Further details on the manhunt for the assailants were not made public.
Moise was killed in the early hours of Wednesday in a middle-of-the-night attack on his residence near the capital Port-au-Prince.
A group of unidentified people, some speaking Spanish and English, attacked the home and shot Moise dead.
Haiti’s ambassador to the U.S. Bocchit Edmond told international media that his wife Martine was injured and has been taken to the U.S. city of Miami for treatment.
Haiti’s embassy in Washington described Moise’s killing as a “well-coordinated attack by a highly trained and heavily armed group.”
The embassy called the 53-year-old president, who critics derided as an autocrat, a “true statesman … dedicated to progressing our country’s democratic transition and fighting corruption.”
It said he had “died in defence of democracy.”
Local media reported that assailants had posed as officers of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said reports of DEA involvement were “absolutely false,”
