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Gangs unleash new attacks on upscale areas in Haiti’s capital, with at least a dozen killed nearby

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Published 10:21 AM

By PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA and ODELYN JOSEPH
Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gangs have attacked two upscale neighborhoods in Haiti’s capital in a rampage that left at least a dozen people dead in surrounding areas. Gunmen looted homes in the communities of Laboule and Thomassin before sunrise on Monday. They forced residents to flee as some called radio stations pleading for police. The neighborhoods had remained largely peaceful despite a surge in violent gang attacks across Port-au-Prince that began on Feb. 29. An Associated Press photographer saw the bodies of at least 12 men strewn on the streets of Pétionville, located just below the mountainous communities of Laboule and Thomassin.

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