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Haiti’s Nationwide Police says it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship loaded with rice after a gun battle with gangs that lasted greater than 5 hours.
Two law enforcement officials have been injured and an unspecified variety of gang members have been killed throughout the gun battle that happened off the coast of the capital Port-au-Prince on Saturday, authorities mentioned in a press release.
It was a uncommon victory for an underfunded police division that has struggled to quell gang violence after a wave of assaults that started Feb. 29.
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Police mentioned within the assertion on Sunday that these liable for the hijacking have been members of two gangs referred to as the 5 Seconds and the Taliban gang. They mentioned armed males seized the transport ship Magalie because it left the port of Varreux on Thursday.
Radio Télé Métronome reported that the gangs kidnapped everybody on board the ship and stole about 10,000 luggage of rice out of the 60,000 luggage it had on board.
A nationwide police officer patrols an intersection in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, April 6, 2024. (AP Picture/Odelyn Joseph)
The ship was certain for the northern coastal metropolis of Cap-Haïtien.
Additionally on Sunday, on-line information web site Radiographie reported that the Taliban gang used a front-end loader to demolish a police station within the Port-au-Prince suburb of Canaan, the place not less than 4 law enforcement officials have been killed in a current assault. The station was not operational.
The most recent shootout between police and gangs comes greater than a month after gunmen started focusing on key authorities infrastructure. They burned down a number of police stations, opened hearth on the primary worldwide airport, which stays closed, and stormed Haiti’s two largest prisons, releasing greater than 4,000 prisoners.
The continued violence pressured Prime Minister Ariel Henry to announce that he would resign as soon as a transitional presidential council was shaped.
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Henry was in Kenya to push for the UN-backed deployment of a police pressure from the East African nation when the assaults started and Haiti stays locked out.
