The National Police Service (NPS) has dismissed reports that some of its officers deployed to Haiti on a U.N.-backed peacekeeping mission have been killed. This follows online claims that seven officers had been killed in the war-torn Caribbean nation as armed gangs increased pressure on the deployed troops.
An image widely circulated over the weekend showed a recent photo of Kenyan police patrolling a street in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, with text alleging that the officers had been reported dead. The text read, “7 Kenya police reported dead in Haiti aki [President William Ruto] God will never forgive you.”
On Monday morning, NPS termed the image as fake. The police service did not provide further information about the mission or the state of the Kenyan troops.
The first batch of about 400 Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti on June 25. Kenyan President William Ruto had ceremonially seen the police off a day earlier in Nairobi, describing it as a “historic” mission of solidarity.
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