Haitian police have arrested six suspected assassins of president - chief

Haiti's police has captured six of the men who assassinated President Jovenel Moise and is hunting for the masterminds behind the operation, police chief Leon Charles said in a televised news briefing on Thursday.

Charles appealed to the population to cooperate with security forces and not to cause unrest, after a crowd formed outside a police station in the capital Port-au-Prince where suspects were being held.