Haiti's police fight gun battle president's killers - chief

Haiti's security forces were battling a group of gunmen who assasinated President Jovenel Moise in his home overnight and have so far killed four of the "mercenaries", police chief Leon Charles said on Wednesday evening.

"The police is still in combat with the assailants," Charles said in a televised briefing, saying that two of the attackers had been detained. "They will be killed or captured".