Diplomat shot dead in Haiti

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.

Paul-Henri Mourral was driving yesterday on Haiti’s main north-south highway connecting Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien when a group of armed men shot him, pulled him out of his vehicle and stole it, said Eric Bosc, a French Embassy spokesman.