Death toll at 5 in food protests

A man was killed by gunfire as demonstrators took to the streets in the southern Haitian city of Les Cayes, raising the death toll to five in protests against rising food prices, officials and radio reports said.

Rock-throwing student protesters also clashed with police outside the state-run national university in Port-au-Prince, capital of the impoverished Caribbean nation of nearly 9 million people.

Four people were killed and 20 others were hurt in a riot in Les Cayes last week. U.N. vehicles were burned, peacekeepers were attacked and a food warehouse was looted.