FOUR foreign mercenaries suspected of killing the Haitian President were killed and two more have been arrested following a bloody gun battle, police have said.
Police chief Leon Charles said his men "blocked" the group from leaving President Jovenel Moïse's compound and have been "battling" them ever since.
Three officers were taken hostage and subsequently released while an unspecified number of attackers were able to escape, Charles said, adding they would be "killed or arrested".
"Four mercenaries were killed [and] two were intercepted under our control," Charles said, according to the BBC.
"Three policemen who had been taken hostage have been recovered. We blocked [the suspects] en route as they left the scene of the crime. Since then, we have been battling with them."
Another official called the assassins "well trained professional commandos" and "foreign mercenaries" who carried high-powered guns and dressed in black, Fox News writes.
The suspects killed in the gunfight are yet to be identified.
Video footage from the capital on Wednesday showed smoke billowing from several areas and sounds of gunfire, though it's unsure if this was related to the police sting.
Interim Prime Minister Clause Joseph said President Moïse was shot dead by a group of "foreigners who spoke English and Spanish" who disguised themselves at US Drug Enforcement Agency agents.
The Prime Minister declared a two-week "stage of siege", imposing martial law, which has seen the Caribbean nation's borders sealed and all flights out of Port-au-Prince halted.
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