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At least five members of a rogue security brigade seeking the ouster of Haiti’s prime minister died Wednesday in an exchange of gunfire with police, who spent a third day beating back violent protests across the country. Lionel Lazarre, the head of SYNAPOHA, a police union, said Haiti National Police also arrested three agents of the Protected Areas Security Brigade, known as BSAP, and confiscated one of their vehicles. Police and brigade members found themselves engaged in a deadly gun battle in Laboule, a hillside community above the capital of Port-au-Prince, early Wednesday as anti-governm…

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