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 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The Brazilian commander of U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti was found dead on the balcony of his hotel room Saturday in an apparent suicide, authorities said, a blow to the 9,000-strong force and efforts to restore democracy in Haiti.
U.N. officials and Haitian police swarmed the upscale Hotel Montana where 58-year-old Lt. Gen. Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, blood staining his white T-shirt, was slumped on a tile floor against the balcony.
"His unexpected death leaves us all bereft, and we offer our most sincere condolences to his family," said Damian Onses-Cardona, a spokesman for the U.N. mission in Haiti.
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