HAITIAN police killed a 15-year-old girl while firing warning shots over looters in the quake-destroyed Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, family members told AFP.
Fabienne Cherisma was standing in ruins on Marthely Seiee street at around 4pm when police intervened to disperse looters pillaging properties destroyed in last week's massive and deadly earthquake, witnesses said.
An AFP photographer, who arrived at the scene after the shooting, confirmed that the girl was dead from an apparent bullet wound to the head.
Some witnesses in the angry crowd, including the girl's father 52-year-old jobseeker Osam Cherisma, said the policeman had aimed deliberately at the girl, while others spoke of a warning shot that went tragically astray.