26973L (news) Chamberlain: Canadian peacekeeper killed in Haiti (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

     PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Gunmen shot and killed a
Canadian police officer with the U.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti on
Tuesday, a U.N. official said.
     The officer, who was not identified, was shot on National Route 1 not
far from Cite Soleil, a large slum in the capital Port-au-Prince, said Marc
Jaquet, a spokesman for the police contingent of the U.N. peacekeeping
force.
     The peacekeepers, now numbering nearly 9,000 soldiers and police, were
sent to the troubled Caribbean nation to restore security after the bloody
rebellion that pushed President Jean-Bertrand from office in February 2004.
     Eight U.N. peacekeepers have died since the deployment of the U.N.
mission -- four of them in accidents -- including the Canadian police
officer, according to U.N. officials in Haiti. Thirty others have been
wounded. The U.N. Web site listed eight killed as of Monday, not including
the Canadian.
     Three Chilean soldiers were ambushed and shot in the northern town of
Plaisance on Friday.