Demonstrators in Haiti pelted rocksTuesday to soldiers of the multinational peacekeeping force amid violent turmoil that claimed at least three lives in the last hours, reports reaching here.

Members of the peacekeeping force Tuesday shot at a taxi that disobeyed an order to stop, killing the driver and wounding a passenger in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.

The death of the driver angered the local people, who blocked one of the main roads to the capital with improvised barricades and burning tires.

There were conflicting reports about the circumstance of the shooting. Some said the driver was killed by US forces and others claim they were French.

French forces had been moved Monday to the industrial area of northern Port-au-Prince to contain a wave of lootings.

France and the United States deployed military forces in Haiti to restore order amid the political crisis that followed the removal of former Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide, who went into exile in the Central African Republic.

There were clashes between the local population harassed and peacekeeping forces and the police Tuesday in other areas of the capital. The police killed Tuesday two people who allegedly participated in the disturbances.

Peacekeeping forces were shot at Monday without causing casualties in the Belait neighborhood in the center of the capital.

Aristide said that US troops forced him out of the presidentialhouse and flew him to exile on Feb. 29 in the capital of the Central African Republic Bangui.

He claimed on Monday he was still the president of Haiti and urged his supporters to wage peaceful resistance and to restore constitutional order in the country, an implicit reference to his return to the presidency.