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From Breitbart: Haitian gangsters opened fire on a government press conference at Haiti’s largest public hospital on Tuesday, killing two journalists and a police officer. The Viv Ansanm gang said it committed the atrocity because it controls that portion of Port-au-Prince, and did not give the hospital permission to resume operations.
The press conference was called at 8:00 a.m. local time to commemorate the reopening of the State University of Haiti Hospital in downtown Port-au-Prince, known by its French acronym HUEH or as “General Hospital” to local residents. The hospital was closed in February after gangsters occupied it and destroyed much of the facility.
Videos recorded after police conducted a major operation to evict the gangsters in July showed the walls of the hospital were riddled with bullet holes, emergency vehicles were torched, and medical supplies were looted.
The governments of the United States and France financed construction of a replacement hospital, but then-Interim Prime Minister Garry Conille vowed to rebuild the HUEH, which served thousands of poor Haitians in the nation’s capital. It took several weeks for police to secure the facility enough for international health officials to tour the facility and launch the reconstruction project.
The report explains that Health Minister Duckenson Lorthe Blem delayed the press conference and kept reporters waiting until just after 11:00 a.m. That’s when heavily-armed gang members opened fire on the hospital with “non-stop shooting,” killing two of the waiting journalists and a police officer, and injuring seven other reporters.
The gunmen were reportedly firing through the bars of a gate around the hospital
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