U.S. Orders Families of Embassy Staff to Leave
From Times Wire Reports
The State Department ordered the families of U.S. Embassy staff and some nonessential embassy workers to leave Haiti because of recent violence in the Caribbean nation’s capital.
The order was issued after an unidentified man fired gunshots at an embassy van in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday and amid ongoing violence in the poor nation.
“No one was injured [in Wednesday’s attack]. We are working closely with the Haitian police to investigate,” embassy spokeswoman Mara Tekash-Ball said.
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