One dead, three injured in Haiti aid distribution chaos

A teenage girl was killed and three people wounded by gunfire on Tuesday in Haiti when chaos broke out during humanitarian aid distribution to hurricane victims, the UN mission said.

The much-needed aid was being unloaded from a Colombian ship at the port in the southwestern town of Dame-Marie when a stampede occurred on the dock in the afternoon.

National police fired live ammunition on the crowd demonstrating over the slow pace of aid some three weeks after Hurricane Matthew struck southern Haiti, killing at least 546 people and leaving 175 000 without homes.