PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haitian police shot and killed a prominent rebel leader Saturday in a gunbattle in the capital with several armed men, U.N. officials said.
Police killed Remissainthe Ravix during a shootout in an industrial area in the capital of Port-au-Prince, U.N. civilian police spokesman Dan Moskaluk said. Ravix was one of four leaders of the rebellion that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Feb. 29, 2004.
Haitian and U.N. civilian police were searching for suspects in the shooting of a U.N. employee when they saw about 10 armed men trying to flee an area in the Delmau neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Moskaluk said.
The police chased the men into a nearby industrial area, cornering them inside a building, he said. Haitian police started exchanging fire with the men, killing Ravix, Moskaluk said.
No other casualties were immediately reported.