Wyclef Jean shot in Haiti
March 21st, 2011 - 1:16 pm ICT by IANSLondon, March 21 (IANS) Singer Wyclef Jean was shot in Haiti while he was campaigning for a friend standing in its presidential election.
A bullet grazed Wyclef’s hand when he stepped out of a car to make a phone call in the capital Port-au-Prince Saturday.
“I heard ‘blow, blow, blow’ and I looked down at my right hand,” thesun.co.uk quoted Haiti-born singer as saying. Jean says he had no idea who fired the shots or which direction they came from.
He was rushed to a local hospital and was discharged after treatment. Jean was in his homeland to support the campaign by his musician pal Michel Martelly.
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