A member of the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support mission in Haiti is dead along with a civilian after two armored vehicles were involved in an accident along a mountaintop road above Port-au-Prince.

The fatalities were confirmed by Jack Ombaka, the spokesman for the MSS. In addition to the deaths, eight MSS officers were injured, three of them critically. “They required medical evacuation to the Dominican Republic for specialized care after receiving initial treatment,” a hospital that cares for injured members of the security mission.

The accident, Ombaka said, occurred at approximately 5 p.m. Sunday along the Kenscoff–Pétion-Ville road at Pelerin 9 in the capital, during a recovery operation involving two MaxxPro vehicles.

“While one was towing the other due to a mechanical f

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