US EditionDrone attack in gang-controlled slum in Haiti kills at least 8 children, injures 6 others
The drone strike targeted a gang leader in Haiti's Cité Soleil slum, killing 13 including eight children, amid ongoing efforts to curb gang violence, activists said.
- On Saturday night, explosive drones struck the Simon Pelé neighborhood within the Cité Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, resulting in the deaths of more than a dozen individuals, among them eight children.
- The attack occurred amid escalating gang violence, with Haitian authorities using drones since March and the US designating the controlling gang coalition Viv Ansanm a foreign terrorist group in May.
- According to Haiti’s National Human Rights Defence Network, police deployed two kamikaze drones during the operation, resulting in the deaths of three non-combatants and four individuals suspected of gang involvement, with seven others injured.
- Michelin Florville said the explosion killed her son, aged 32, and two grandchildren, ages 3 and 7, while Romain Le Cour called the attack an "urgent question of accountability".
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Haiti's transitional council president emphasized the necessity of prompt global efforts to reestablish security amid ongoing violence, alongside continued demands for the creation of a gang suppression force.
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8 children killed in drone attack in gang-controlled Haitian neighbourhood
Explosive drones targeting a suspected gang leader killed at least eight children inside a slum in Haiti's capital and seriously wounded six others, relatives and activists told The Associated Press on Monday, as they blamed police for the attack.
Explosive drones targeting an alleged gang leader killed at least eight children in a shantytown in the Haitian capital and seriously injured six others, said Monday to the Associated Press of relatives and activists. They blamed the attack on the police.
At least eight children have been killed and six injured in a drone attack in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, on Saturday evening.
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