Two reporters and a police officer died in an attack at the reopening of Port-au-Prince's biggest public hospital. Seven journalists covering the event were wounded.

Wounded journalists in bloodied clothes waited for help on the floor of Haiti's General Hospital after it was attacked by gangs a day before Christmas Day.

Street gangs forced the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince to close earlier this year. As journalists gathered to cover its reopening, suspected gang members opened fire.

The incident took place at the reopening of the country's largest hospital, which had been closed earlier this year precisely due to gang violence. As journalists gathered to cove