Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise has been killed during an attack on his private residence early on Wednesday, according to the country’s acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph.
.The interim prime minister, Dr Claude Joseph, said Jovenel Moise died in an assassination at his private home in the Carribbean country. He called it an “hateful, inhumane and barbaric act”.
He added that the first lady, Martine Moise, was also injured and had been taken to hospital.
Dr Joseph said the attack was carried out by a group of unidentified people during the night. Some of these spoke in Spanish, he added. Gunshots could be heard throughout the capital, Port-au-Prince, after the attack, which comes amid a deepening political and economic instability as well as a spike in gang violence in Haiti.
