Armed bands perpetrated this week a New massacre in Haitiwith an attack on the commune of Kenscoffeast of the capital, which The lives of at least twenty civilians were claimedwhile the Haitian National Police (PNH) killed about twenty members of those groups.
“I have lost everything, hopefully the authorities came to rescue me. They have killed my ox EFE among tears Vanicia Anéus, 50. He was born in Kenscoff and is a merchant.
According to the testimonies collected by EFE in Kenscoff, where on Monday dozens of strongly armed individuals invaded the commune days after announcing it on social networks, at least twenty civilians died, while police spokesman, Michel-Ange Louis-Jeune, said to local media of the death of about twenty members of the armed bands after responding to the attack.
“What happened hurts me to the medulla. The first attacked area is where I live, throwing myself out. He has not returned home from the attack. “They are things that I used to see on television. As I have a phone, when I connect to YouTube I see them. They are not things that we could see in our neighborhood,” he told Efe. The man asked the authorities to send reinforcements to fight the bands, “because we do not want to leave our neighborhood to the bandits. There are many injured and it is difficult to count the bodies“.
The armed bands Some people were killed in their homes. They were killed while working in the fields of this suburban commune. Some families have lost up to 12 of its members. They also set fighter dozens of homes, EFE found.
Some of the displaced found refuge in the City Council, while others stayed on the street without having to go. Kenscoff is a municipality located in an area elevated to the east of Port -au -Prince. “We live badly, we can’t sleep. We run in all directions. We slept in the street with our children,” said Judite Sauveur, 25, who lived in Bellot, a Kenscoff neighborhood. In his neighborhood, he says, there are dead and several injured were transferred to the hospital. “Some people have burned the houses”
The Haitian National Police (PNH), which has announced the deployment of its forces in Kenscoff, continues its operations in the place in order to locate armed individuals among the population.