Six police officers were killed in northern Haiti during an attack on a police station by gang members, authorities said, in a new act of violence at the origin of demonstrations this Thursday in Port-au-Prince.
“Bandits” attacked a Police sub-station in Liancourt, a town in the north of the Caribbean country, three times, and “during the third attack”, armed men who attacked “from all fronts” “killed six of our agents”, indicated the police chief. Jean Bruce Myrtil told local radio on Thursday morning.
A level “not seen in decades”
Among the six murdered policemen, four, wounded hours before, were “taken” by gang members from the clinic where they were being treated “to execute them,” added the police chief.
The Director General of the Haitian National Police, Frantz Elbé, said that his forces are “on maximum alert (…) since this Thursday, January 26.” The police had announced on their social networks the death of “six brave policemen”.
Fourteen police officers have been killed by armed gangs since the beginning of the year, according to a tally by the Haitian National Police Union. Unionist Lionel Lazzare called on officials to take steps to protect officers.
Gang violence and the humanitarian emergency have reached levels “not seen in decades” in Haiti, the UN was alarmed on Tuesday by insisting on the need to send an international force, a request that is on the table of the Security Council for three months, no result.
Source: BFM TV
