PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 30 (Reuters) – At least 16 people were killed and 10 more injured in an attack in Petite-Riviere, in Haiti’s breadbasket Artibonite region, police said on Monday, amid a conflict with the Gran Grif gang.
A preliminary report by local civil protection authorities suggested a higher toll, reporting 17 dead and 19 injured.
Local media said the violence began in the Jean-Denis neighborhood.
The attack follows United Nations reports that more than 2,000 people were recently displaced by armed raids in nearby Verrettes, prompting residents in Petite-Riviere to flee their homes.
The Artibonite department, a key agricultural area, has seen some of the country’s worst violence as gang conflict spreads beyond the capital, Port-au-Prince.
(Reporting by Steven Aristil; Editing by Sarah Morland)
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