Haitian police and a vigilante group are accused of executing two patients and attacking staff members of the French medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) after stopping an ambulance in Port-au-Prince this week. The ambulance, carrying three young people with gunshot wounds, was about 100 meters from MSF's hospital in the Drouillard area.
According to the MSF mission, police attempted to arrest the patients and fired shots into the air before escorting the ambulance to Hôpital La Paix in the capital. Once there, the police officers and members of a so-called citizens' self-defense group allegedly surrounded the vehicle, slashed its tires, and tear-gassed MSF staff inside to force them out. The patients were then taken a short distance from the hospital, where at least two were executed, MSF said.
