More than 10,000 Haitians flee gang attacks in past week, UN says

People flee their homes from gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti October 20, 2024. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

(Reuters) - More than 10,000 people in Haiti have been internally displaced in the last week as armed gangs operating in and around the capital Port-au-Prince ramp up attacks on areas they do not yet control, according U.N. migration agency estimates on Thursday.

The agency had said at the start of September that more than 700,000 people were internally displaced across the Caribbean nation, nearly double the figure six months earlier.

(Reporting by Sarah Morland; Editing by Brendan O'Boyle)