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Port-au-Prince, Haiti- A powerful gang coalition Launched new attacks against the capital of Haiti, leading dozens of families of houses while the police promised on Wednesday to retain armed men.

The authorities evacuated the students of a Catholic school in the west of Port-au-Prince while the heavy shots continued in the region near the famous Oloffson hotel, which once attracted international celebrities in the 1970s and 80s.

Meanwhile, the cries to get help emerged on social networks for a group of priests trapped in a church in the Carrefour-Feuilles district, which endured a large part of the attack on the Coalition of Gang VIV Ansanm which started late Tuesday.

“They are trying to take more areas, but the police are there, ensuring that it does not happen,” Lionel Lazarre, deputy spokesperson for the National Police in Haiti, told a press conference.

He said the police had new plans to fight gangs This already controls 85% of the capital of Haiti, but refused to provide details, citing security reasons.

Lazarre noted that the police had recently seized 10,000 bullets, weapons and drugs of a minibus in the city of Mirebalais, northeast of Port-au-Prince. He said two of the four people who were munitions were lynched on Sunday by a crowd, while the others escaped.

The latest attacks came a few days after William O’Neill, the UN Human Rights Expert in Haiti, visited the country in difficulty of the Caribbean.

“The risk that the capital is falling under the gangs is palpable,” said O’Neill on Tuesday, even if Haitian police work with A sustained mission no Directed by Kenyan police to help stifle the violence of the gangs.

O’Neill and others called for a strengthening of the mission, which, according to the United States, has the lack of funding and staff.

Last year, more than 5,600 people were reportedly killed across Haiti. Gang violence left over a million homeless in recent years.

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The journalist of Associated Press Dánica Coto in San Juan, Porto Rico contributed.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti- A powerful gang coalition Launched new attacks against the capital of Haiti, leading dozens of families of houses while the police promised on Wednesday to retain armed men.

The authorities evacuated the students of a Catholic school in the west of Port-au-Prince while the heavy shots continued in the region near the famous Oloffson hotel, which once attracted international celebrities in the 1970s and 80s.

Meanwhile, the cries to get help emerged on social networks for a group of priests trapped in a church in the Carrefour-Feuilles district, which endured a large part of the attack on the Coalition of Gang VIV Ansanm which started late Tuesday.

“They are trying to take more areas, but the police are there, ensuring that it does not happen,” Lionel Lazarre, deputy spokesperson for the National Police in Haiti, told a press conference.

He said the police had new plans to fight gangs This already controls 85% of the capital of Haiti, but refused to provide details, citing security reasons.

Lazarre noted that the police had recently seized 10,000 bullets, weapons and drugs of a minibus in the city of Mirebalais, northeast of Port-au-Prince. He said two of the four people who were munitions were lynched on Sunday by a crowd, while the others escaped.

The latest attacks came a few days after William O’Neill, the UN Human Rights Expert in Haiti, visited the country in difficulty of the Caribbean.

“The risk that the capital is falling under the gangs is palpable,” said O’Neill on Tuesday, even if Haitian police work with A sustained mission no Directed by Kenyan police to help stifle the violence of the gangs.

O’Neill and others called for a strengthening of the mission, which, according to the United States, has the lack of funding and staff.

Last year, more than 5,600 people were reportedly killed across Haiti. Gang violence left over a million homeless in recent years.

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The journalist of Associated Press Dánica Coto in San Juan, Porto Rico contributed.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti- A powerful gang coalition Launched new attacks against the capital of Haiti, leading dozens of families of houses while the police promised on Wednesday to retain armed men.

The authorities evacuated the students of a Catholic school in the west of Port-au-Prince while the heavy shots continued in the region near the famous Oloffson hotel, which once attracted international celebrities in the 1970s and 80s.

Meanwhile, the cries to get help emerged on social networks for a group of priests trapped in a church in the Carrefour-Feuilles district, which endured a large part of the attack on the Coalition of Gang VIV Ansanm which started late Tuesday.

“They are trying to take more areas, but the police are there, ensuring that it does not happen,” Lionel Lazarre, deputy spokesperson for the National Police in Haiti, told a press conference.

He said the police had new plans to fight gangs This already controls 85% of the capital of Haiti, but refused to provide details, citing security reasons.

Lazarre noted that the police had recently seized 10,000 bullets, weapons and drugs of a minibus in the city of Mirebalais, northeast of Port-au-Prince. He said two of the four people who were munitions were lynched on Sunday by a crowd, while the others escaped.

The latest attacks came a few days after William O’Neill, the UN Human Rights Expert in Haiti, visited the country in difficulty of the Caribbean.

“The risk that the capital is falling under the gangs is palpable,” said O’Neill on Tuesday, even if Haitian police work with A sustained mission no Directed by Kenyan police to help stifle the violence of the gangs.

O’Neill and others called for a strengthening of the mission, which, according to the United States, has the lack of funding and staff.

Last year, more than 5,600 people were reportedly killed across Haiti. Gang violence left over a million homeless in recent years.

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The journalist of Associated Press Dánica Coto in San Juan, Porto Rico contributed.