Gangs on Prowl in Storm-Wracked Haiti
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Victims who lost relatives, homes and belongings in Tropical Storm Jeanne are now tormented by street gangs who attack food convoys, raid homes at night and shoot those who get in their way.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Hundreds of UN soldiers stormed a slum neighborhood in Haiti's capital yesterday to try to wrest control from a criminal gang, prompting a gunfight that killed one person and wounded several others, including two peacekeepers.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE : About 30 people have lost their lives in Haiti as tropical storm Jeanne swept across the island of Hispaniola that Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic, authorities said on Sunday.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - Blood swirled in knee-deep floodwaters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue Tuesday. Carcasses of pigs, goats and dogs and pieces of smashed furniture floated in muddy streams that once were the streets of this battered city...
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GONAIVES, Haiti - Rescuers pulled bodies from floodwaters that raged through parts of Haiti's third-largest city, sweeping people from their homes and forcing survivors to spend the night in trees, atop cars and on rooftops following Tropical Storm Jeanne. The death toll nearly doubled to 241 Monday evening after dozens more bodies were recovered...
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Mobs torch buses and burn driver to death as rival gangs confront each other in latest escalation of unrest
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Over the last decade gangs have spread across Central America, Mexico and the U.S., setting off a catastrophic crime wave.
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By Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - U.N. troops, backed byarmored vehicles and helicopters, fought their way into alawless slum in the Haitian capital on Tuesday in their firstattempt to end a killing spree by warring street gangs.
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LITTLE more than six months after the latest regime change in Haiti, heads are beginning to rollâliterally. More than two weeks of street violence in the slums of the capital, Port-au-Prince, have claimed
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Spiralling political violence and looting in Haiti has overwhelmed UN peacekeeping forces and threatens to escalate further this weekend as former soldiers of the disbanded national army gather in the capital ready to take on street gangs loyal to the
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GONAIVES, Haiti -- Blood swirled in knee-deep flood waters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue yesterday. Carcasses of pigs, goats, and dogs, and pieces of smashed furniture floated in muddy streams that once were the streets of this battered city. Desperate people swarmed a truck delivering water.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- New fighting has broken out in the capital of Haiti as supporters of the ousted president take to the streets.
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Relief workers in Haiti are warning about the growing desperation of flood victims in the aftermath of a tropical storm, Jeanne, that devastated the city of Gonaives a week ago, killing more than 1,100 people and leaving as many as 250,000 homeless.
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GONAIVES, Haiti -- Haitians surrounded by the destruction of Hurricane Jeanne prayed for the 1,500 dead during church services yesterday and gave thanks that their lives were spared, while the United Nations rushed more peacekeepers in to stem looting in the ravaged city of Gonaives.
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Floodwaters in Haiti are starting to recede as aid agencies struggle to bring relief to thousands of people in the wake of tropical storm Jeanne.
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GONAIVES, Haiti Sept. 20, 2004 - Raging floodwaters brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne killed at least 90 people in Haiti and left families huddled on rooftops as the storm pushed further out into the open seas, officials said.
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GONAIVES, Haiti : Thousands of Haitians emerged from shelters in the city of Gonaives to pick through debris, their flooded homes and wrecked streets after Tropical Storm Jeanne took nearly 2,000 lives.