“Residents in Port-au-Prince Lynched and Killed over a Dozen Suspected Gang Members: Latest News and Updates”

2023-04-26 00:38:00

Police officers patrol the area in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on May 25./Richard Pierrin/AFP/Getty Images

2023.04.26 Wed posted at 09:38 JST

（ＣＮＮ） More than a dozen suspected gang members were lynched and killed by residents in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the 24th.

Footage circulated by Archyde.com and France’s AFP news agency showed bodies being surrounded by tires and being burned, as a crowd gathered nearby. Residents told both news agencies that the dead were gang members.

“At 3 a.m., a gang broke in and there was a shooting,” said one resident. Another resident said a group believed to be a gang attacked around 2 a.m.

Smoke billows following gang-related violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sunday/Richard Pierrin/AFP/Getty Images

Haitian police said in a statement that police had earlier stopped a minibus in the city, searched it, and seized weapons and other items. “A dozen or so people in the minibus were lynched by residents,” he said.

A 15-year-old resident told AFP news agency: “If gangs break in, we’ll defend ourselves. We have our own weapons. We have machetes. We’ll take their weapons. We won’t run away.”

In Port-au-Prince, gangs control large areas and inflict extreme violence on residents suffering from poverty and humanitarian crises.

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