Haiti police recover hijacked cargo ship after five-hour shootout with gangs

Haiti police recover hijacked cargo ship after five-hour shootout with gangs
A National Police officer patrols an intersection in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (Odelyn Joseph/AP)

Haiti’s National Police agency says that it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice following a gunbattle with gangs that lasted more than five hours.

Two police officers were injured and an undetermined number of gang members were killed in the shootout that occurred on Saturday off the coast of the capital, Port-au-Prince, authorities said in a statement.

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