An angry crowd killed more than 10 suspected gang members in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. The police had stopped a minibus with armed men in the Canape Vert district today and confiscated weapons, cartridges and mobile phones, as announced on Facebook. Then passers-by lynched more than ten people from the bus, the police wrote.
Haitian media reported that the bodies of about 14 people killed were burned. Residents were under a lot of tension because of the gang violence in the city.
For years, Haiti has suffered violence from gangs, some of whom have political ties and control much of the capital, according to the UN. The interim government, which has been in power since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in July 2021, asked for help from an armed international force around six months ago – it has not come so far.
