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Haiti sees a rise in killings and police executions with children targeted, UN says

Oct. 30, 2024 14:18 PM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — More than 1,740 people were reported killed or injured in Haiti from July to September, a nearly 30% increase over the previous trimester, according to the latest numbers released Wednesday by U.N. officials. The surge in violence comes as gangs seize...

Gang coalition in Haiti spreads violence to Port-au-Prince neighborhood, setting fire to homes

Oct. 26, 2024 15:35 PM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A gang coalition on Saturday reinforced its attacks on one of the few communities in the Haitian capital not under the control of criminal groups, seeking to take it over. After a week of clashes with the police in the Solino neighborhood in...

Gangs in Haiti open fire and hit a UN helicopter midair as violence surges

Oct. 24, 2024 20:54 PM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gangs on Thursday opened fire and hit a U.N. helicopter, forcing it to land in Port-au-Prince in the latest attack in Haiti's capital as violence surges once again. No one was injured as several rounds of gunfire hit the helicopter that was carrying...

Haitians leave their homes in several neighborhoods to escape more gang violence in the capital

Oct. 19, 2024 13:01 PM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gangs attacked in several neighborhoods of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Saturday, forcing many people to leave their homes after gunfire raged through the night. Authorities did not immediately release casualty information. Haiti's police...

Gangs attack neighborhoods across Haiti's capital in new wave of violence

Oct. 18, 2024 14:58 PM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Multiple gangs attacked several communities in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Friday, setting fire to homes and a church as bullets whizzed through the area. At least one woman was killed as gangs opened fire in Solino, St. Michel, Tabarre 27...

A gang leader in Haiti is injured in a shootout with Haitian and Kenyan police

Oct. 15, 2024 11:41 AM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A leader of one of Haiti’s most powerful gangs was injured in a shootout with Haitian and Kenyan police in their first major incursion into gang-controlled territory since a U.N.-backed mission began earlier this year, police said Tuesday. The...

Survivors of massacre in small Haitian town where 70 died point finger at government

Oct. 09, 2024 03:23 AM EDT

PONT-SONDÉ, Haiti (AP) — Angry whispers have broken the heavy silence that fell over Pont-Sondé just days after a vicious gang attack left more than 70 dead, marking one of Haiti’s biggest massacres in recent history. The whispering came from a handful of people that remained...

Thousands survived a brutal gang attack in Haiti that killed 70. Now they face an uncertain future

Oct. 07, 2024 22:32 PM EDT

PONT-SONDÉ, Haiti (AP) — Under the cover of night, dozens of gang members crept toward the small town of Pont-Sondé in central Haiti armed with knives and assault rifles as families slept. The gang had traveled from nearby Savien in vehicles they ditched halfway through the trip,...

Over 6,000 people in Haiti leave their homes after gang attack killed dozens

Oct. 06, 2024 19:48 PM EDT

SAINT-MARC, Haiti (AP) — Nearly 6,300 people have fled their homes in the aftermath of an attack in central Haiti by heavily armed gang members that killed at least 70 people, according to the U.N.’s migration agency. Nearly 90% of the displaced are staying with relatives in host...

This week's gang attack on a Haitian town killed at least 70 people, UN says

Oct. 04, 2024 17:16 PM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The tally of victims killed in this week's brutal attack on a small town in central Haiti by heavily armed gang members has risen to at least 70, the U.N. human rights office said Friday. Bodies lay strewn on the streets of Pont-Sondé following...