Haiti’s murdered president laid to rest as tensions flare

The funeral for late Haitian President Jovenel Moïse got underway Friday morning amid heavy security hours after demonstrations turned violent in the impoverished, politically volatile Caribbean nation.

Pallbearers in military attire carried Moïse’s body in a closed wooden coffin two weeks after he was gunned down – and his wife, Martine, was wounded – in an assassination still shrouded in mystery His polished casket was placed on a dais garlanded with flowers while a Roman Catholic priest offered a blessing and a Haitian flag was unfurled, Reuters reported.