The president of Haiti has been killed in an attack at his home, an official has said.
The interim prime minister, Dr Claude Joseph, said Jovenel Moisehad died in an assassination at his private home in the Caribbeancountry. 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.