At least 28 alleged members of armed groups were killed this Tuesday in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince by members of the National Policeas well as for civilianswho burned the bodies of more than twenty of them and scattered them throughout the city, which is practically paralyzed, while the clashes continue.
The information was confirmed to the local press by the National Policewhose spokesman, Lionel Lazarre, initially spoke of 18 alleged gang members dead or injured.
Some of them were killed by police inside the houses in which they took refuge and, later, located by the civilians who ended up burning the bodies.
The dead, according to information, are part of armed gangs that began to unfold in various parts of the capital between Monday night and Tuesday morning with the aim of establishing new bases in areas that are not yet under their direct control.
It is likely that this balance will increase again in the coming hours due to the registrations being carried out by the citizens in areas where it is believed that the gang members.
In messages that have been circulating on social networks for several days, armed gangs have announced attacks in Delmas and Pétion-ville with the aim of taking control of these areas.
The population from the areas of Nazon, Lalue, Christ Roi and Bois-Verna lived a night of terror, with intense shots of automatic weapons that forced hundreds of people to spend the night awake.
The entire situation forced the paralysis of the commercial activities and the teaching in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Princewhere there are also blocked areas and surveillance brigades have been set up in search of more gang members.
At various points in the capital clashes are taking place between agents and the armed gangscreating a panic situation in the capital.
The main streets are empty, giving the impression that the capital is on strike.
The Police operations take place a week after armed gangs of the coalition Vivre Ensemble (Living Together), led by former police officer Jimmy Cherizier, alias ‘Barbecue’, will announce days of terror in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince.
At the beginning of last week two commercial airplanes Americans were shot, leading to the closure of the airport Toussaint Louverture International, the country’s main airport, and the suspension of Flights by several companies.
The UN also temporarily suspended the delivery of humanitarian aid due to the impossibility of access to the port and airport in the capitaldue to the serious deterioration in security.
Only between July and September last at least 1,223 people died and 522 were injured in Haiti as a consequence of the violence and the fight against gangs, according to the United Nations Integrated Office in the Caribbean country (BINUH).
Added to this are the 3,900 victimsbetween dead and wounded, in the first semester of the year, after 2023 closed with about 8,000 victims.
