A police officer who is among a team deployed to the ongoing Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission in Haiti was Tuesday shot and injured during an operation in Port-au-Prince.
The mission officials said the police officer was injured while conducting a security operation in Kenscoff, within the Belot area on Tuesday March 18, 2025.
Spokesman Jack Ombaka said the officer was promptly evacuated to ASPEN Level 2 Hospital, where he is receiving medical attention and is in stable condition.
He did not elaborate on the nature of the injuries.
The officer is the second police officer to be shot and injured in the mission so far.
This came a day before Constable Samuel Tompoi Kaetuai who was shot and killed on February 23 in the same area was set to be buried in his rural home in Kajiado.
Kaetuai will be buried on March 19 at his rural home at an event to be attended by top police officers and politicians.
Kaetuai was among a team that was pursuing a gang when he was shot in the head and died.
Kenya has deployed at least 800 police officers under MSS mission to Haiti to help in combating gangs.
The current mission is expected to have a total of 2,500 personnel, with the Bahamas, Guatemala, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin and Chad also pledging to send police and soldiers
Haiti has been grappling with escalating gang violence, with the United Nations reporting that at least 5,601 people were killed in gang-related incidents last year—1,000 more than in 2023.
The UN also documented 315 lynchings of alleged gang members and 281 suspected summary executions by police. This violence has displaced over a million Haitians, according to the UN’s migration agency.
Gang control in Port-au-Prince has led to an almost complete breakdown of law and order, the collapse of health services and the emergence of a food security crisis.
More than 5,500 people were killed in gang-related violence in the Caribbean nation in 2024 and more than a million people have fled their homes.
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