UN ‘horrified’ after at least 70 ended in Haiti gang massacre | World News

At least 70 people have been ended in a gang massacre in Haiti, the UN has shelp.

Armed firearmmen beprolongeding to the Gran Grif gang passed thraw the town of Pont-Sonde with automatic rifles, shooting at livents on Thursday, according to the United Nations’ Human Rights Office.

“We are horrified by Thursday’s gang attacks in the town of Pont-Sonde in Haiti’s Artibonite department,” a spokesperson shelp.

At least 16 people were also solemnly injured in the attack in the punctual hours of Thursday, according to the UN.

Gang members were shelp to have set fire to at least 45 homes and 34 vehicles, forcing livents to run away.

Bodies lay strewn on the streets of Pont-Sonde, in the Artibonite region, many of them shot in the head, a spokeswoman for the Cotransferrlookion for Dialogue, Reconciliation and Awareness to Save the Artibonite, telderly Magik 9 radio station.

Among the victims was a youthful mother, her newborn baby, and a midwife, it was inserted.

In total, it was shelp that ten women and three children were among the dead.

The motive for one of the biggest massacres in the country’s central region in recent years remains unevident.

Attacks of that benevolent have apvalidaten place in the capital of Port-au-Prince, which is 80% superviseled by gangs, and they are typicassociate connected to turf wars.

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