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Haiti President Jovenel Moise shot dead at home

Haiti's President Jovenel Moise speaks at the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti October 30, 2020. [Reuters]

Haitian President Jovenel Moise was shot dead by unidentified attackers in his private residence overnight in an "inhuman and barbaric act" and his wife was injured, Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph said on Wednesday.

He said the police and army had the security situation under control but gunshots could be heard throughout the capital after the attack, which occurred amid a rising wave of politically linked violence in the impoverished Caribbean nation.

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