Marines kill driver in new Haiti unrest

[Judi Lynn]

Marines kill driver in new Haiti unrest

Staff and agencies
Tuesday March 9, 2004

US marines shot and killed a Haitian who was driving at speed towards a military checkpoint, it was reported today, amid signs of renewed unrest in the capital Port-au-Prince.

A spokesman for the US peacekeeping force in Haiti told the Associated Press that the passenger in the vehicle was injured in the incident.

"When you see a vehicle approaching at high speed it is seen as a threat, so the marines opened fire. The driver was killed ... A second man was injured and turned over to the Haitian police," said the spokesman.

He said the driver's body was turned over to the International Committee of the Red Cross, but the body of a man who had apparently suffered gunshot wounds was still lying near the checkpoint area on Port-au-Prince's main Delmas Road this morning.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1165687,00.html

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