PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Armed men belonging to the Gran Grif gang killed at least 70 people when they passed through a Haitian town with automatic rifles shooting at residents, a spokesperson for the United Nations’ Human Rights Office said on Friday.
“We are horrified by Thursday’s gang attacks in the town of Pont-Sonde in Haiti’s Artibonite department,” spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan said in a statement.
According to the U.N. at least 16 people were seriously inured in the attack in the early hours of Thursday as gang members reportedly set fire to at least 45 houses and 34 vehicles, forcing residents to flee their homes.
(Reporting by Harold Isaac; Editing by Aida Pelaez-Fernandez)
