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Three sus­pect­ed drug traf­fick­ers were killed in an ex­change of fire as po­lice in Haiti con­fis­cat­ed more than 2,300 pounds (1,000 kilo­grams) of co­caine aboard a boat, of­fi­cials said Tues­day, in a rare drug seizure in the trou­bled Caribbean coun­try.

The po­lice raid took place off the coast of north­ern Haiti near Tortue Is­land where traf­fick­ers are sus­pect­ed of trans­fer­ring drugs, Port-de-Paix pros­e­cu­tor Jeir Pierre told Ra­dio Caraïbes on Tues­day.

Pierre said po­lice have long post­poned any ac­tion at that lo­ca­tion be­cause of a lack of re­sources but not­ed that a re­gion­al po­lice di­rec­tor re­cent­ly re­quest­ed a boat to use around Tortue Is­land.