Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry said that unknown assailants shot and killed Eric Jean Baptiste, secretary general of the Union of National Progressive Democrats of the Republic, TASS reported.

He said the killing of Baptiste and his bodyguard threw the republic's citizens into turmoil.

"We strongly condemn this heinous crime against this patriot, this moderate politician committed to change," he tweeted.

On behalf of the government and people of Haiti, Henry expressed sincere condolences to the families of the victims, to the Rassemblement des démocrates nationaux progressistes and to the political class, outraged by the heinous crime.