Aristide supporters behead police victims in street clashes

MACHETE-WIELDING supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are turning their wrath on Haiti’s demoralized police force, beheading some of their victims in a campaign imitative of the insurgency in Iraq.

Seven of at least 18 people killed in the turmoil in Port-au-Prince have been police officers, judicial police chief Michael Lucius said. He said an eighth officer remains hospitalised in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the head.

Three of the slain policemen were decapitated after being shot during clashes with pro-Aristide demonstrators last week.