Source: France 24 [French state media]
“The tally of victims killed in this week’s brutal attack on a small town in central Haiti by heavily armed gang members has risen to at least 70, the U.N. human rights office said Friday. Bodies lay strewn on the streets of Pont-Sonde following Thursday’s attack in the Artibonite region, many of them killed by a shot to the head, Bertide Harace, spokeswoman for the Commission for Dialogue, Reconciliation and Awareness to Save the Artibonite, told Magik 9 radio station. … Haiti’s government has deployed an elite police unit based in the capital of Port-au-Prince to Pont-Sonde following the attack and sent medical supplies to help the area’s lone hospital overwhelmed by dozens of people injured.” (10/04/24)