After residents of the nation’s Pétion-Ville area on Tuesday morning in a state of panic and armed bandits, more than 20 crew members were killed by officers and members of the public.
Residents in the Canape Vert town of Port-au-Prince were the only ones to fire suspected crew members who had attempted to invade their community after the attempted attack on the dear residential district of Port-au-Prince, which has tried to shield itself from the city’s murderous gangs.
As people sheltered in place and Pétion-Ville remained on lockdown, police spokeswoman Lionel Lazarre reported to the Miami Herald that at least 28 feared crew members had died.
” For the time, the authorities are continuing to carry out functions”, he said.
Lazarre said he did not know but where the group members, who for days had been threatening to invade the area, were from. In the wake of the threats and frequent gun battles in Port-au-Prince, the Kenya-led foreign security mission and its officers were on high alert for days.
According to him, at least 10 crew members were killed by officers and” by the people who gave themselves fairness” when a vehicle they were riding in crossed a police station close to the Oasis Hotel on Panamerican Avenue. According to Lazarre,” the crew members fled after there was an exchange of gunfire.”
Dead, cut off with weapons and set on fire, were strewn on the road. In the Valley of Bourdon, not far from the home of the U. S. embassy to Haiti and the prime minister’s office, more charred bodies littered the footpath.
Around 2 a.m., according to Lazarre, events started to unfold when both a truck and a bus were intercepted by police heading up the hill into the neighborhood. After time of battling officers and members of the global policeman goal in the capital’s Solino and Nazon neighborhoods, the two vehicles had explicitly declared conflict and claimed Pétion-Ville and neighboring Delmas would be the next victims.
He claimed that other armed group members were killed after the minivan was stopped in the capital’s Post-Marchand neighborhood in addition to the group members who were in the truck.
According to Lazarre, thousands of rounds of ammunition, a helicopter, and at least two AK-47 automatic rifles were all found in the gangs, Lazarre said, adding that authorities were still conducting searches in the capital’s Bourdon neighborhood, “where many of these men are hiding.”
In response to the escalating hostilities in Haiti, armed gangs made an attempt to harm Pétion-Ville, a destination for luxurious resorts and some of the country’s richest residents. Next month, the nine-member Transitional Presidential Council that leads Haiti ousted the prime minister, Garry Conille, and installed a new head of government, investor Alix Didier Fils-Aime.
At his shouting in service, Fils-Aime said restoring security and organizing votes are his best interests. Despite the presence of an armed global police mission led by Kenya and involving members from Bahamas, Jamaica, and Trinidad, both are large orders as armed gangs grow more powerful and more neighborhoods lose control.
The aircraft authority shut down the capital’s international and domestic flights last week and the Federal Aviation Administration imposed a 30-day ban on all U.S. flights to Haiti after three U.S. airlines were struck by group gunfire while landing or departing from Port-au-Prince. U.N. charitable flights as well as a leased aircraft that Taiwan is funding to transport police from hot zones have also been affected by the FAA’s decision.
The problems were accompanied by a boom in crime in the urban Port-au-Prince place that in the past year that has displaced an extra 20, 000 people, including more than 10, 000 babies, the United Nations has said. They are in addition to the 700,000 Haitians who have already experienced homelessness.
” Children in Haiti are once again bearing the brunt of continuous murder by armed groups that has upended their lives, casting a black cloud over their futures”, Geeta Narayan, state director for the U. N.’s leading infant security agency, UNICEF, said on Monday. ” Kids are not only enduring the pain of murder in neighborhoods like Solino and Tabarre but also facing the compounded impacts of hunger, typhoid outbreaks, severe emotional distress, and all too often, tragic loss of life”.
On Wednesday, the U. N. Security Council will discuss the situation in Haiti in a meeting called by Russia and China. The two countries, which have veto power in the council, remain opposed to a push by the U. S. to transform the multinational security mission into a formal U. N. peacekeeping operation. Such a move would help to secure funding for the underfunded effort and increase the number of foreign police and military personnel stationed in Haiti to support the gang fight.
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