People walk past a damaged car in the Carrefour Feuilles neighbourhood, which was deserted due to gang violence. — Reuters picPORT-AU-PRINCE, March 20 — Security forces in Haiti killed at least three people, repelling an attack on the central bank as gang violence surges in the capital of Port-au-Prince, an employee said yesterday.
The employee, who requested anonymity, said three or four suspected criminals had been killed, adding that a bank security guard was also shot and wounded.Writing on X, previously Twitter, the bank said Tuesday: “Following an incident yesterday near the site of the BRH on Rue Pavee, security forces and the bank’s security team acted with professionalism and efficiency.”
Talks among political parties and others are underway to form a transitional council that would name an interim prime minister to get the country ready for elections at some point. Haiti now has no president or parliament. Its last election was in 2016. The violence has exacerbated an already grim humanitarian situation, with the UN warning over the weekend of “famine and malnutrition” and “the near-collapse of basic services.”
Several areas in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area were left without power, the public electricity utility said in a statement Monday, after at least four substations were “destroyed and rendered totally dysfunctional.”
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