A gang in Haiti opens fire on a crowd of parishioners trying to rid the community of criminals
Source: Associated Press
A gang in Haiti opens fire on a crowd of parishioners trying to rid the community of criminals
BY EVENS SANON
Updated 9:37 PM EDT, August 26, 2023
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A powerful gang opened fire Saturday on a large group of parishioners led by a pastor as they marched through a community armed with machetes to rid the area of gang members.
The attack was filmed in real time by journalists at the scene, and several people were killed and others injured, Marie Yolène Gilles, director of human rights group Fondasyon Je Klere, told The Associated Press.
She watched online as hundreds of people from a local church marched through Canaan, a makeshift town in the outskirts of the capital of Port-au-Prince founded by survivors who lost their homes in the devastating 2010 earthquake.
It wasn’t immediately clear how many people were killed and injured in the attack.
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