Gun battles between rival gangs kill more than 50 people and wound 100 others since Friday near Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, local mayor says
Gun battles between rival gangs have killed more than 50 people since Friday near Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, amid a continuing escalation of violence gripping the Caribbean nation.
Shootouts between gangs in the impoverished suburb of Cite Soleil have also left more than 100 people wounded, 50 of them critically, according to mayor Joel Janeus. "People who were hunkering down during the shootings, the bullets went through their roofs and killed them," Janeus said in a telephone interview on Monday. Gangs have also blocked access to Varreux fuel terminal, Haitian newspaperWest Indies Group, a Haitian conglomerate that owns the Varreux terminal, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Rights activists in May said that clashes between the rival Chen Mechan and 400 Mawozo gangs had left 148 people dead, some of whom were hacked to death with machetes or died when their homes were set on fire. Haiti on Thursday commemorated the anniversary of Moise's murder as the country's judicial authorities have yet to charge anyone in the brazen assassination.Source: Reuters
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