Over 2,400 killed in Haiti gang violence in 2023
Aug 20, 2023
Port-au-Prince[Haiti], August 20:More than 2,400 people have been killed in Haiti since the start of 2023 amid rampant gang violence, including hundreds killed in lynchings by vigilante mobs, the UN said Friday. The toll comes as clashes in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince this week left 30 residents dead and more than a dozen wounded. "Between January 1 and August 15 of this year, at least 2,439 people have been killed and a further 902 injured," UN rights office spokeswoman RavinaShamdasani told reporters in Geneva. In addition, she said, "951 people have been kidnapped" during the same period.
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