Two U.N. peacekeepers killed in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Two U.N. peacekeepers from Jordan were killed and a third seriously injured in a shooting at a checkpoint in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, a U.N. spokesman said.

One soldier was killed in the attack and the other died later at a hospital, a spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday in New York.

The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti has drawn increasing criticism in recent weeks from leaders of the Caribbean nation's transitional government.

Elections have been postponed four times in the impoverished country since President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced from office in February 2004.