Gunmen wound three U.N. soldiers in Haiti
Three Chilean soldiers with the U.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti were ambushed and shot in the troubled Caribbean nation, which holds elections next month, U.N. officials said on Monday. A U.N. civilian spokesman in Haiti, Damian Onses-Cardona, said the wounded peacekeepers were members of a road reconnaissance mission on Friday in Plaisance, a town between the northern cities of Gonaives and Cap-Haitien. “Two U.N. soldiers received minor injuries and the other one, more seriously hit in the left arm, was repatriated to Chile on Sunday,” Onses-Cardona said. Full Story