Haiti
An accident involving two armored vehicles in Haiti’s capital left at least two people dead and eight police officers from Kenya injured, according to officials.
The one dead and all those injured were part of a U.N.-backed mission fighting gangs in the troubled Caribbean country.
The other fatality was a civilian, according to a statement from the mission’s spokesman, Jack Ombaka.
Three of those injured were in serious condition and airlifted to the neighboring Dominican Republic for treatment, authorities said.
The accident occurred Sunday evening along the Kenscoff-Pétion-Ville route in the outskirts of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Ombaka said it happened when one of the armored vehicles that was towing a disabled one broke down.
It brought to three the number of Kenyan police officers killed in Haiti since the mission began more than a year ago.
One was killed in a gang attack, and another remains missing and is presumed dead.
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