A U.N. police officer was dragged from his car and shot dead as violence flared in Haiti's capital following the dismissal of the country's prime minister and the announcement of a plan to slash the price of rice.
Haiti's government had hoped that the rice subsidy and Parliament's firing of Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis on Saturday would defuse rage over rising the food prices that had produced days of deadly rioting and looting.
But later Saturday, a Nigerian U.N. officer bringing food to his unit was pulled from a car and killed execution style with a gunshot to his neck in Port-au-Prince, U.N. officials said.
The officer, identified in …
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