Dozens of people have died in four days of gang battles in a violent neighborhood of Haiti’s capital, the latest eruption of bloodshed in a wave of increasing violence sweeping the country, local officials said Tuesday.
A surge in fighting between rival gangs in the capital, Port-au-Prince, killed 99 people and injured 135 others, the United Nations says. The Caribbean island has been wracked by violence, natural disasters and poverty.
The unrest erupted between two rival factions, and the city's ill-equipped and understaffed police failed to intervene, trapping residents in their homes, unable to go out even for food and water
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