At least two people were killed and others injured on Tuesday when armed men opened fire on a group of journalists who gathered for a government press conference set to announce the reopening of Haiti's largest public hospital, a witness to the attack told Reuters, APA reports.
A reporter and a police officer were killed, said a journalist at the scene who asked not to be named.
Haiti's national police did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for information.
Haiti's transitional presidential council said in a post on Facebook that the act would not go without consequences.
"We express our sympathy to all the victims' families, in particular, to the Haitian National Police and all the journalists' associations," it said, without confirming the number of people killed.
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