Large-scale gang assault on multiple government buildings in capital reported as violence causes political crisis to spiral out of control
Police patrol a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday after authorities extended the state of emergency amid gang violence that has threatened to bring down the government.Police patrol a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday after authorities extended the state of emergency amid gang violence that has threatened to bring down the government.
The source said the attack was coordinated and swift, with different groups simultaneously targeting multiple government buildings including the presidential palace, the interior ministry and a police headquarters for Haiti’s western district, which includes Port-au-Prince. On Friday, Guy Philippe, who helped lead a coup in Haiti in 2004 and returned to the Caribbean island last year after serving a prison sentence in the US, demanded that Henry step down and said he wanted to become president.
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