Haiti Awaits New Chief as Official Mourning Starts for Moise

Haiti Awaits New Chief as Official Mourning Starts for Moise
Haiti's interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph gives a press conference in Port-au-Prince, on Friday, July 16, 2021. AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn
The Associated Press
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—While they await a new leader, Haitians are beginning a series of official ceremonies Tuesday to honor President Jovenel Moïse nearly two weeks after he was assassinated at home.

The body of Moïse was to lie in state starting before dawn at the National Pantheon Museum in the capital of Port-au-Prince, officials said. He was shot multiple times during a July 7 attack in which his wife was seriously wounded.