Two reporters and a police officer died in an attack at the reopening of Port-au-Prince's biggest public hospital. Seven journalists covering the event were wounded.

Haiti’s online media association said two reporters were killed and several others were wounded in a gang attack on Tuesday on the reopening of Port-au-Prince’s biggest public hospital.

Street gangs closed down the hospital early this year, which is the biggest public hospital in Port-au-Prince.

Haiti's Health Minister Duckenson Lorthe has been removed following a gang attack on a hospital in Port-au-Prince that resulted in multiple fatalities.

A deadly gang attack in Haiti earlier this week that killed two journalists and wounded seven more underscores the dangers facing journalists in a nation that has been plagued by gang violence for years.

Wounded journalists in bloodied clothes waited for help on the floor of Haiti's General Hospital after it was attacked by gangs a day before Christmas Day. Photographer Jean Feguens Regala, who was inside the hospital in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday,

The incident took place at the reopening of the country's largest hospital, which had been closed earlier this year precisely due to gang violence. As journalists gathered to cove