26975: (news) Chamberlain: Canadian peacekeeper killed (later story) (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 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.
     Canada identified the victim as Mark Bourque, and said he was one of
25 police officers who went to Haiti in October as part of the Canadian
Special Elections Contingent.
     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 Aristide from office in
February 2004.
     Including the Canadian police officer, nine U.N. peacekeepers have
died since the deployment of the U.N. mission, four of them in accidents,
according to U.N. officials in Haiti. Thirty others have been wounded.
     Three Chilean soldiers were ambushed and shot in the northern town of
Plaisance on Friday.