Police on Wednesday opened fire on demonstrators demanding higher wages and killed a reporter, according to witnesses and a hospital official in Port-au-Prince.
Two other journalists were shot and wounded at the scene, where hundreds of gathered to call for a higher minimum wage than the one approved this week by the government of Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
A passing police vehicle fired at protesters, according to a Reuters witness and a union leader present. Dominique St Eloi, a union leader who was at the demonstration, said it was calm when police began shooting from the vehicle.
The government on Monday hiked the minimum wage by as much as 54% following weeks of demonstrations by garment workers who said their wages did not keep up with the rising cost of living.
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