
A US missionary couple were among three people killed in Haiti as widespread gang violence continues to plague the country.
Natalie Lloyd, 21, her 23-year-old husband David, and Jude Montis, a 20-year-old Haitian, were ambushed by gunmen as they left a church.
The couple’s deaths were confirmed on Facebook by Natalie’s father, Missouri State Senator Ben Baker.
“They were attacked by gangs this evening and were both killed,” he wrote. “They went to heaven together.”
The couple were married in 2022.
Their organisation, Missions in Haiti, confirmed to US media that Mr Montis was the third victim.
In an earlier Facebook post, the organisation said that the three were attacked by two separate armed groups, beginning with an attack by gunmen in…