According to official estimates, only one hundred of the approximately 3,800 prisoners remained in the building after the attack.
At least a dozen people have died in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince after members of a criminal gang attacked the city’s main prison on Saturday night. The attack caused a mass escape of thousands of prisoners.
According to a reporter from the news agency AFP who visited the prison, there were a dozen bodies outside the building.
The attack came after the criminal gangs that largely control the capital had sparked violence since Thursday last week.
According to Haitian media, the prison had been spied on by drones since Thursday.
According to official estimates, only one hundred of the approximately 3,800 prisoners remained in the building after the attack.
The goal is to oust the prime minister
The members of the criminal gangs have announced as their goal the prime minister who has led the country since 2021 Ariel Henry displacement.
Known members of criminal gangs and persons convicted of involvement in the assassination of the country’s former president had been imprisoned Jovenel Moisen to the murder in 2021.
As of Sunday, it was still unclear whether Prime Minister Henry had returned to the country from his visit to Kenya.
Haiti has been in turmoil for years and the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. No elections have been held in the country since 2016.
Source: AFP