Haiti: at least a dozen dead after gang attack on Port-au-Prince prison

At least a dozen people died after last night’s attack on the civil prison in Port Prince by armed gangs, who reportedly freed numerous high-profile criminals during the prison attack.

EFE was able to see the bodies of at least 10 people in the vicinity of the prison, some of them torn apart by dogs, following a night marked by violence, without the Government having yet commented on the situation.

Bodies on the street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 3, 2024. (Photo Johnson Sabin/EFE) (Johnson Sabin/)

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Everything seems to indicate that, as this Sunday progresses, the death toll will increase due to last night’s attack on National Penitentiary.

On the street, versions suggest that the Policewhich appears to be regaining control of the situation, has also collected some bodies.

Haitiwho woke up today with apparent calm, experienced moments of extreme violence last night, with intense clashes between gangs and the Police and the entry of armed groups into the civil prison, the largest prison in the country. Port Prince.

On social networks there are videos in which you can see how the powerful leader of the gang Dieu Village, Izomonitors both the National Penitentiary and the National Palace.

A man passes by a dead body on a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 3, 2024. (Photo by Johnson Sabin/EFE) (Johnson Sabin/)

According to versions circulating on the networks, the next objective of the armed groups would be precisely the National Palace.

The gangs use the networks to reveal their plans to take control of all State institutions, with the aim of overthrowing the Government.

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At the moment there is no news about the return to the country of Haitian Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, after participating in Guyana to the summit of Caribbean Community (Caricom) and his subsequent trip to Kenyawhere he discussed sending a multinational security support mission to Haiti led by that African country and approved by the UN in October.

Last Friday, Kenya and Haiti signed Nairobi a bilateral agreement requested by the African country’s courts to allow the sending of a contingent of 1,000 police officers of this nationality.

Since Thursday, violence has increased in Haiti after the Prime Minister of the Bahamas Felipe Daviswill ensure that his Haitian counterpart, Ariel Henriquecommitted to holding elections before August 31, 2025.

Source: Elcomercio