The UN Human Rights Office stated at least 3,000 individuals were required to runaway after gang members assaulted early on Thursday.
Published On 4 Oct 2024
At least 70 individuals haveactually been eliminated and 3,000 required to leave when armed guys belonging to the Gran Grif gang assaulted a town in main Haiti.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights stated on Friday that the attack happened on Thursday in Pont-Sonde, 100km (60 miles) northwest of Port-au-Prince.
The UN included that at least 16 individuals were seriously hurt in the attack, consistingof 2 gang members who were struck throughout an exchange of shooting with Haitian cops.
The workplace stated gang members likewise supposedly set fire to at least 45 homes and 34 carsandtrucks.
“Members of the Gran Grif gang utilized automated rifles to shoot at the population, killing at least 70 individuals, amongst them about 10 ladies and 3 babies,” UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan stated in a declaration, including that the firm was “horrified” by the attack.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres likewise condemned the attack, his representative stated on Friday.
Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille knocked the attack on X, stating an “odious criminaloffense versus defenceless ladies, guys and kids is not just an attack versus victims however versus the whole Haitian country”.
“To those who plant horror, I state this: you