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Haitian police probe killing of Swiss woman found in jeep

The Associated Press Published Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:01PM EDT

Pirist Dugard, 31, places rock on a tarp covering his tent at a camp set up for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake, in what used to be an airstrip in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 4, 2012. (AP / Dieu Nalio Chery)

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Police in Haiti are investigating the killing of a Swiss woman whose beaten body turned up in the back seat of a Jeep in northern Haiti.

Michel Martin of the United Nations police department says the body of the 45-year-old woman was found Tuesday near the town of Grande Riviere du Nord. She had been tied up and had a wound to her head.

She had been working for a Zurich-based non-profit named the Black Rain Group, which operates an orphanage and home for the aged. A group spokeswoman confirmed the death, but said she could not give her name ahead of a formal statement.

Neither police nor the group released her name.