Haiti: Gang Clash in Carrefour Leaves Several Dead

Gangs Clashes in Haiti, Aug 8, 2024 Photo: @ListinDiario

August 9, 2024 Hour: 3:52 pm

It is estimated that armed gangs have gained control of about 80 per cent of the capital, Port-au-Prince, in recent years.

Clashes between armed gangs in the Carrefour commune of Haiti on Thursday afternoon left several people dead and citizens in panic, local media reported.

Brochette, Waney and Bertin neighborhoods in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince were the scene of intense gunfire. According to reports, on Rue Saint Charles, between Lamentin 52 and 54, the bodies were piling up.

Meanwhile, high school students were trapped in their classrooms by repeated detonations.

As a result of the clashes, was killed and then set on fire at Ruelle Saint Charles, Lamentin 52, the leader of the Cold River gang, Marc Arthur.

Des violents affrontements entre les gangs de Marc Arthur et de Krisla laissant dans plusieurs rues de Carrefour des cadavres empilés comme des sardines à la ruelle St Charles,entre Lamentin 52 et 54,Marc Arthur qui avait contrôlé une partie du Rivière Froide parmi les victimes pic.twitter.com/bdUjysnoo3
— GABINFO HAÏTI (@GABINFO3) August 9, 2024

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Violent clashes between the gangs of Marc Arthur and Krisla left corpses piled up like sardines in several streets of Carrefour in the alley of St Charles, between Lamentin 52 and 54, Marc Arthur who had controlled part of Rivière Froide among the victims

According to sources, dozens of members of his gang were also killed by members of Krisla’s armed group.

Haiti continues to be plunged into a new spiral of violence. The poorest country in America has been mired for years in acute political, economic, health and security crises that have fuelled the growing violence and paralysis that is gripping it.

This reached a peak with the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse on July 7, 2021 by a group of Colombian mercenaries, perpetrated at his home in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.