Haiti - FLASH : Shooting between Haitians and Dominican soldiers, 2 dead
Saturday around 3:30 pm in the community of Pinzón, on the line called Tierra de Nadie, in the border area of Elías Piña, Haitian traffickers introducing narcotics on the Dominican territory were caught by a patrol of the Specialized Corps of Land Border Security (CESFRONT) on which they opened fire, killing mortally a soldier, Oriano Montero Encarnación, native of the municipality of Hondo Valle.
The soldiers responded and during the shooting a Haitian was killed before his accomplices fled to Haiti. Without ID, the Haitian victim could not be identified. The bodies of the two victims were transported to the morgue of Rosa Duarte Hospital in Comendador, in the municipality of Elias Piñas. Information provided by the mayor, Comendator Israel Aquino, while he was at the morgue of the hospital.
