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Haitian prez assassination

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Two US citizens are among 28 people detained over the assassination of Haiti's president, the chief of national police has said.

Jovenel Moise, 53, was shot dead by suspected mercenaries at his home in Port-au-Prince, the capital of the impoverished Caribbean island, in the early hours of Wednesday.

Officials have said the attack was carried out by "a highly trained and heavily armed group", whose members spoke Spanish or English.

National Police chief Charles Leon paraded 17 of the suspects in front of a journalists at a news conference on Friday alongside passports, assault rifles, machetes and hammers being used as evidence in the case.

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Evidence in the case, including guns, was also put on show. Pic: AP
Interim Haitian president Claude Joseph addresses a news conference on the killing. Pic: AP
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Interim Haitian president Claude Joseph addresses the news conference. Pic: AP
He said that two Haitian-Americans were among those arrested over Mr Moise's murder, including one who used to work as a bodyguard at the Canadian embassy in Port-au-Prince.



Mathias Pierre, Haiti's minister of elections, named the pair as James Solages, 35, and Joseph Vincent, 55. The US State Department said it was aware of reports of the arrests but did not confirm them.

The other 26 detained are from Colombia, Mr Charles said, adding that three other suspects were killed by police and eight are on the run
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