The UN rights chief said Monday that 184 people had been killed over the weekend in the Haitian capital, rocked by a spike in gang violence.

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“Just this past weekend, at least 184 people were killed in violence orchestrated by the leader of a powerful gang in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, in the Cite Soleil area,” Volker Turk told reporters in Geneva. “These latest killings bring the death toll just this year in Haiti to a staggering 5,000 people.”

AFP