The victim lost his life after excessively inhaling the tear gas with which the police tried to disperse the protesters.
At least a person has dead and eleven have been injured during the protests that took place this Monday in the Haitian town of Petit Goave, in the west of the country.
The dead person, who was asthmatic, He died after inhaling tear gas. harmful launched by the Police to disperse the demonstrators of a protest, as reported by the newspaper ‘Rezo Nowdes’.
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Two of the injured would have a serious prognosis after have been shot, as detailed by the director of the Notre-Dame hospital in the Haitian town to the aforementioned newspaper. Likewise, several pro-government counter-demonstrators reportedly launched stones against protestersraising the number of injured to eleven people.
The demonstration was called to protest against the rise in prices of basic products as well as the insecurity that the country faces, according to the aforementioned newspaper.