ANTI-UN riots spread to several Haitian cities yesterday as protesters blaming foreign peacekeepers for a deadly outbreak of cholera exchanged gunfire with soldiers.

Gunmen killed the honorary French consul to the northern city of Cap-Haitien while he was driving in Haiti’s capital, amid growing insecurity in the hemisphere’s poorest country, the French Embassy said today.

Rebel fighters are converging on the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and waiting for the order to attack, their leader said today.

US Marines were protecting the country’s embassy in Haiti today as rebels threatened to attack the capital in a bid to overthrow President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.