Haiti PM’S motorcade hits 2, killing 1

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A motorcade carrying Haiti’s prime minister struck two teenage boys, killing one, as officials drove into the country’s third largest city on Monday to see flood damage left by heavy rains.

Serge Daniel, a government delegate who was travelling in Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant’s motorcade, said one of the vehicles accidentally struck two adolescents who darted into the road on a motorbike.

The motorcade continued on to its destination as the badly injured teenagers lay on the road, sparking a tire-burning protest by furious locals in the southwest city of Les Cayes. Les Cayes police spokeswoman Guerline Dimanche said officers rushed the boys to a public hospital, where one was declared dead on arrival.