Journalist Maximilien Lazard was killed by the Haitian National Police after officers opened fire on a protest by textile workers demanding a higher minimum wage in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.

Lazard was killed and two other journalists, Sony Laurore and Yves Moïse, were injured.

Lazard was covering the demonstration for the YouTube and Facebook-based broadcaster Roi des Infos, and a photo posted to Facebook by his employer shows that he was wearing his press credential at the time of the attack. He died at a local hospital shortly after being shot, according to those reports and Dimanche.

Lazard is the third Haitian journalist killed in relation to their work in 2022.

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