Haiti community suffers due to gang attacks

The violence intensified on Thursday in Haiti’s capital city. PIC/X

Gang members have raided a key community in Haiti's capital that is home to numerous police officers and has been under siege for four days in an ongoing attack, with residents fearful of the violence spreading throughout Port-au-Prince.

The pop of automatic weapons echoed throughout Solino on Thursday as thick columns of black smoke rose above the once peaceful neighborhood where frantic residents kept calling radio stations asking for help. "If police don't come, we are dying today!" said one unidentified caller.

Lita Saintil, a 52-year-old street vendor, said she fled Solino on Thursday with her teenage nephew after being trapped in her house for hours by incessant gunfire. Homes around hers were torched by gangs, and she saw at least six bodies as she fled. "It's very scary... don't know where I'm going," she said.

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