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Wyclef says bullet grazed his hand

Published:Monday | March 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM
With a bandage in his right hand, Haitian-American singer Wyclef Jean (front), sits inside a car before casting his ballot at a polling station during a presidential run-off in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, yesterday. Jean told the AP in a telephone interview he was grazed by a bullet in the hand when he stepped out of his car in Haiti to make a phone call. Haiti's voters will choose between candidates Mirlande Manigat, the former first lady, and Michel 'Sweet Micky' Martelly, a star of Haitian music to lead the country. - AP

Musician Wyclef Jean yesterday reported that a bullet grazed his hand as he stepped out of a car to make a telephone call in Haiti.

Jean, who has been in Haiti helping the presidential campaign of his friend and fellow musician Michel 'Sweet Micky' Martelly, said the bullet grazed him late Saturday night as he stepped out of his car in the Delmas section of the capital, Port-au-Prince.

"The way I can explain it is that the bullet grazed me in my right hand," Jean told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "I heard blow, blow, blow and I just looked at my hand."

Jean, who was with a driver and the Haitian hip-hop singer FanFan at the time, said he doesn't know who fired the shots, or whether they were directed at him.

The Haitian-American performer said he was treated at a local hospital and released. Jean said he was taking antibiotics and recovering at an "undisclosed location" before going out to vote in yesterday's presidential election.

Jean did not say what hospital treated him. Later, Garry Andre, who handles security for the musician, said it was CitiMed in Petionville. Hospital officials could not be reached immediately and a spokesman for the national police did not immediately respond to requests for comment.