Haitian prime minister goes abroad for support after gang massacre


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  • Sunday, 06 Oct 2024

FILE PHOTO: Haiti's Prime Minister Garry Conille addresses the media at a local hospital where he was visiting police officers and civilians injured in a shooting during a police operation a few days earlier, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti August 28, 2024. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol/File photo

SAINT-MARC, Haiti (Reuters) - Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille embarked on a trip to the United Arab Emirates and Kenya on Saturday to seek security assistance in the aftermath of one of deadliest gang attacks in the Caribbean nation in recent years.

Haiti is reeling after members of the Gran Grif gang stormed through the town of Pont-Sonde in the western Artibonite region early on Thursday, killing at least 70 people, including infants, and forcing over 6,000 residents to flee.

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