US EditionHaiti: Spiralling Gang Violence Intensifies Crisis
Gangs expanding control near Port-au-Prince killed two specialized unit officers in Kenscoff, amid a surge of violence causing over 1,500 deaths in recent months, U.N. reports.
- On Wednesday, heavily armed gang members killed two Haitian police officers after their armored vehicle got stuck in a ditch in Kenscoff, Haiti.
- On the fringes of the capital, Kenscoff, Haiti, gangs are trying to seize the community as a new specialized unit patrols after three officers and an informant were killed.
- A U.N. report found 1,520 people were killed and 600 injured across Haiti from April to June, with 24% of casualties caused by gangs, and the multinational force has fewer than 1,000 of its planned over 2,500 personnel.
- Haitian National Police are working with Kenyan officers as gang members posted social media videos gloating over seized police weapons and posted gruesome footage of the officers killed.
- U.N. humanitarian coordinator Ulrika Richardson warned Haiti’s gangs have plunged into regional organized crime, and the $900 million response plan is only 9% funded.
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Haitian police lose three officers in 72 hours amid gang violence wave
PORT-AU-PRINCE — In just three days, Haiti’s National Police (PNH) lost three officers and an armored vehicle in deadly clashes with gangs in Liancourt and Kenscoff, underscoring the scale of the country’s rampant security crisis. The attacks between Aug. 11 and 13 targeted members of the Temporary Anti-Gang Unit (UTAG) and the Departmental Operations and Intervention Brigade (BOID). They came less than a week after André Jonas Vladimir Paraison…
Haiti: Spiralling Gang Violence Intensifies Crisis
Haiti: Spiralling Gang Violence Intensifies Crisis Amid escalating violence in Haiti, heavily armed gang members have killed two police officers, intensifying the Caribbean nation's crisis.The officials, part of a new specialized unit in Kenscoff, were ambushed by gangs near Port-au-Prince, which is largely under gang control. The attack highlights the grave challenges facing Haitian authorities.The situation further deteriorates as a UN-backed …
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Gangs in Haiti kill 2 elite police officers in latest attack against law enforcement
Heavily armed gang members have killed two Haitian police officers. It is the latest deadly attack on law enforcement in the troubled Caribbean country.
Port-au-Prince, Aug 14 (Latin Press) Two agents killed and three injured is the balance sheet offered today by the Haitian National Police (HNP), which suffered an ambush in Kenskoff commune besieged by the coalition of gangs Viv Assanm. The post Two Haitian police killed and three wounded in gang attack first appeared on Noticias Prensa Latina.
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