A member of a violent Haitian street gang said to be the one who shot and killed a Filipino peacekeeper in Port-au-Prince Thursday was among the 10 gang members killed in a gunbattle with police and UN peacekeepers on Friday, the Philippine News Agency reported Sunday.

The Filipino sergeant was killed when an undetermined number of gang members attacked UN peacekeepers and engineers setting up a checkpoint at the notorious seaside slum area, just a day after a Security Council mission arrived in Haiti to assist the situation there.

According to Lt. Col. Daniel Lucero, Philippine contingent commander in Haiti, the unidentified gang member was shot dead by Jordanian troops during an hour-long firefight that also involved elements of the Haitian National Police and peacekeepers from Peru.

Lucero said he was informed about the death of the gang member by the headquarters of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) a few hours after the gun battle - believed to be longest and fiercest the police and UN peacekeepers have ever been involved in since the international community intervened in Haiti last year.

Reports said two Haitian police officers and 20 gang members who also wounded in the firefight that was triggered by a joint MINUSTAH-police operation aimed at restoring order in Cite Soleil and also at finding gang leader Dread Wilmer.

Reports also said that a hail of gunfire met peacekeepers as they entered the sprawling slum area with a population of about 350,000.