By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
TWO persons lost their lives and many others were injured on Tuesday when gunmen 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.
Stonix News learnt that a journalist and a police officer were killed at the scene.
In a post on Facebook, the transitional presidential council said 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.
NBC News reported that Journalists were invited to arrive at the hospital from 8 a.m. to the press conference in the downtown area of the capital Port-au-Prince with Haiti’s new health minister.
They were still awaiting the minister when shooting began around 11 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Health Minister Duckenson Lorthe Blema was installed late November in a cabinet re-shuffle when former Prime Minister Garry Conille was ousted after just six months in office.
The State University of Haiti Hospital, known locally as the General Hospital, is the country’s largest public hospital but it has been closed since a March surge in gang attacks that saw former Prime Minister Ariel Henry ousted from power.
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