Haiti Armed Gangs Make Chaos In Delmas 30, Dozens Of Residents Are Estimated Dead

ILLUSTRATION/Haitien Cap-Haitien Area Haiti/UNSPLASH/Patrice S Dorsainville

JAKARTA - Armed gangs launched a new attack on the Haitian capital on Tuesday. The attack killed residents in the Delmas 30 environment, causing more residents to flee as the gangs continued to operate uncontrollably in the Caribbean nation.

More than 1 million Haitians nearly 10 percent of the Caribbean's most populous countries have been internally displaced by the conflict that has been going on for years.

Armed gangs that have a lot of funds and have a broad ally are expanding and strengthening their control over most of the capital and surrounding areas.

"We haven't slept since yesterday because everyone was panicking," said local resident Alex Josue.

Alex believes about 15 people have died.

"I have a friend who sells meat at the Delmas 30 market and they burn it in front of his child. A woman who lives very close to me is brought with her child, and they burn it," he continued.

RNDDH local human rights group program director Rosy Auguste Ducena said his organization had not been able to estimate the death toll, but there were reports of several people being killed or shot, and several houses being burned.

According to the information we received, armed gangs were raging. They attacked several areas simultaneously, and the modus operandi was always the same, murder, arson, gunshot wounds, rape, and so on, "said Ducena.

"Every time, the victims try to escape and seek shelter in an often unexpected place," he added.

In Delmas 30, residents fled from the scene with mattresses and other items on their heads. A man carrying a body into a thrust cart.