Haiti .. More than 500 prisoners fled after an attack by armed gangs

Agencies – Obernes:

The Haiti authorities announced that more than 500 prisoners fled from Merbali prison after an attack by armed gangs and its result took control of wide parts of the city, northeast of the capital, Port or Prince.

The government’s representative in the region, Friedrich Osian, told Agence France -Presse that the attack on Sunday night targeted the police station and imprisonment, which resulted in the flight of 529 prisoners. He added that the police, who suffer from a shortage of many, fled the center, which allowed the attackers to liberate the prisoners.

Osian pointed out that the attackers wreaked ruin in the city, about 50 km from the capital, before military reinforcements arrived to repel them, pointing to “deaths and injuries among the local population.” He added that thousands of the inhabitants of its inhabitants of about 100 thousand people resorted to neighboring towns, while armed clashes are currently taking place between the attackers and the security forces.