Three journalists, police and others killed in gang shooting at Haiti's largest hospital

More than two people, including a journalist and a police officer, were killed when a gang broke into a general hospital and opened fire in Haiti, the Caribbean's poorest island nation.

Three people, including a journalist and a police officer, were killed when a gang broke into a general hospital and opened fire in Haiti, the Caribbean's poorest island nation.

Armed gang members fired indiscriminately at journalists covering the health minister's schedule and police officers deployed at the scene at Haiti's largest general hospital in Port-au-Prince.

The hospital was closed for eight months in March as increasing gang violence made it difficult to operate, before reopening on the same day.

Haiti's main gang coalition claimed responsibility for the attack on social media and said it had "never approved the reopening of hospitals."

Haiti has seen 80% of the streets of Port-au-Prince, the capital, under gang influence as gang looting and violence continue amid weakening public power since the 2021 killing of President Jovnel Moise.

Kenya-led multinational police officers supported by the United Nations are conducting security operations with local military and police forces, but they are suffering from a lack of manpower and resources.