The Haitian authorities announced the arrest of 6 people - including an American - on suspicion of involvement in the assassination of the country's President Jovenel Moise, while the police revealed the killing of 4 of whom it described as mercenaries, suspected of carrying out the assassination.
And Matthias Pierre, the Minister in charge of Elections Affairs in Haiti, said that an American citizen was among the 6 people arrested on suspicion of their role in the assassination of the president.
Claude Joseph, the interim Prime Minister of Haiti, had declared - after taking over the administration of the country - a state of emergency following the assassination of Moise, and called for the formation of an international investigation committee to look into the operation, amid international reactions condemning the assassination.
And the process of tracking down the assassination team who shot Moyes is accelerating in his residence in the capital, Port-au-Prince, which is on the brink of chaos.
Meanwhile, the police said that they shot dead a number of those involved in the assassination of the president and arrested some of them.
The police said - late yesterday, Wednesday - that they killed 4 men and arrested two others on suspicion of participating in the night raid that shocked the nation and shook the region, she said.
She stated that they released 3 policemen who had been held hostage by the gang.
Officials said that the police and army had already surrounded the militants on Wednesday, and violent clashes erupted between the two sides.
For his part, Carl-Henri Destin, the judge who visited the crime scene, told the local newspaper, Le Nouvelleste, that the attackers entered Moyes's house around 1 am yesterday, Wednesday, and tied a number of service members to the house.
He stated that the president was hit by at least 12 bullets.