Two journalists in Haiti were killed on Thursday by a gang operating on the outskirts of the capital Port-au-Prince, as the country endures an ongoing security crisis six months after the assassination of its president.
Journalist Amady John Wesley died alongside Wilguens Louissaint when members of the Ti Makak gang attacked them in Petion-Ville, a suburb of the capital Port-au-Prince, on Thursday.
Two journalists in Haiti were on Thursday killed by a gang operating on the outskirts of the capital, Port-au-Prince, as the country endures an ongoing security crisis six months after the assassination of its president.
Wilguens Louissaint and Amady John Wesley were killed in a shooting, Radio Ecoute FM said.
A third journalist, who was with them, escaped.
“We condemn in the strongest terms this criminal and barbaric act,” said Francky Attis, general director of Radio Ecoute FM, which employed Wesley.
His statement denounced the “serious attack on the rights to life” and on “journalists exercising their profession freely in this country.”
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