Martine Moise, Wife of Slain Haiti Leader, Says Killers Left Her for Dead

WASHINGTON - The wife of Haiti's assassinated president, seriously wounded in the attack that killed her husband, listened in terror as the gunmen ransacked their home, she said in her first interview since that night.

The killers eventually found what they were looking for in President Jovenel Moise's residence and made cursory efforts on their way out to see if first lady Martine Moise was still alive. "When they left, they thought I was dead," she told The New York Times in an interview published Friday, weeks after the July 7 assassination that heaped a fresh crisis on the fragile Caribbean nation. She survived and was rushed for emergency treatment to the United States, where she spoke to the newspaper while flanked by security guards, diplomats and family.