Highlights
- Singer Wyclef Jean was shot in Haiti while he was campaigning for a friend running for President, on the eve of the Presidential elections. A bullet grazed Jean's hand when he stepped out of a car to make a phone call in the capital Port-au-Prince on 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 campaign for his musician pal, Michel Martelly. Jean tried to run for President himself, after elections were indefinitely postponed in the wake of the January 2010 earthquake. His candidacy was rejected by the electoral council because he did not fulfill the minimum residency requirement of 5 years, having moved to the USA at age nine.
Singer Wyclef Jean was shot in Haiti while he was campaigning for a friend running for President, on the eve of the Presidential elections.
A bullet grazed Jean's hand when he stepped out of a car to make a phone call in the capital Port-au-Prince on 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 campaign for his musician pal, Michel Martelly.
Jean tried to run for President himself, after elections were indefinitely postponed in the wake of the January 2010 earthquake. His candidacy was rejected by the electoral council because he did not fulfill the minimum residency requirement of 5 years, having moved to the USA at age nine.
The prominent Haitian singer accepted the electoral council decision and has played a large part in earthquake relief. This included being part of the
We Are The World 25 for Haiti project, in which he sang a line in Haitian Creole.