A man arranges a mattress on the roof of a car as he flees his neighbourhood following a shooting between police officers and gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Tuesday. Photo: Marckinson Pierre/Reuters
Masses of people yesterday fled one of the few communities in Haiti’s capital that previously hadn’t been taken over by gangs, part of a surge of violence this week as gangs capitalise on the country’s political turmoil.
Families frantically packed mattresses and furniture into cars and carried their belongings on their heads as they left the Solino neighbourhood, one of a handful of areas in Port-au-Prince where a coalition of gangs, called Viv Ansanm, and police were locked in a violent firefight over the past several days.
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