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#1890: U.S. tourist shot dead in Haiti (fwd)
From:nozier@tradewind.net
WIRE:01/17/2000 16:37:00 ET U.S. tourist shot dead in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A U.S. tourist was shot dead in the north
of Haiti by men who stole the Suzuki Samurai car she was driving and
left her husband unharmed, police said Monday. An investigation of
the crime, which took place Saturday afternoon in Source Puantes, was
under way but no arrests had been made,according to police spokesman
Jean-Dady Simeon.
The woman, whose identity was not released, was shot twice before her
husband was forced from the vehicle, a police investigator said. There
were no further details immediately available. The incident is the
second in less than a week involving the killing of foreign nationals in
Haiti. The bodies of a French citizen, his daughter and their Haitian
driver were found Wednesday near Jacmel, in the impoverished Caribbean
nation's south. Five people have been arrested in that case, police
said.