PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI Haitian authorities announced Friday that more than 400 inmates escaped and 25 people died in a prison breakout, making it the country s largest and deadliest one in a decade, with the prison director and a powerful gang leader among those killed. Some believe Thursday s jailbreak at the Croix-des-Bouquets Civil Prison in northeast Port-au-Prince was to free gang leader Arnel Joseph, who had been Haiti s most wanted fugitive until his 2019 arrest on charges including rape, kidnapping and murder. Joseph was riding on a motorcycle through the Artibonite area in the town of L Estere on Friday a day after his escape when he was spotted at a checkpoint, police spokesman Gary Desrosiers told The Associated Press. He said Joseph pulled out a gun and died in an exchange of gunfire with police.
Violence Breaks Out In Haiti After 400 Prisoners Escape; 25 Dead
Some believe Thursday s jailbreak at the Croix-des-Bouquets Civil Prison in northeast Port-au-Prince was to free gang leader Arnel Joseph, who had been Haiti s most wanted fugitive until his arrest in 2019
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Haitian authorities on Friday announced that more than 400 inmates escaped and 25 people died in a prison breakout, making it the country s largest and deadliest one in a decade, with the prison director and a powerful gang leader among those killed.
25 killed after hundreds of inmates escape Haiti prison
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Police patrol outside the Croix-des-Bouquets prison after a prison break Thursday near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo by Tcharly Coutin/EPA-EFE
Feb. 27 (UPI) Twenty-five people died after more than 200 prisoners escaped from a prison in Haiti, including a gang leader and the prison s director. Twenty-five people died including six prisoners and Divisional Inspector Paul Hector Joseph who was in charge of the prison, Frantz Exantus, Haiti s communication secretary, said during a news conference Friday regarding the escape Thursday from Croix-des-Bouquets Civil Prison near the capital Port-au-Prince. Among those killed were some ordinary citizens who were killed by the prisoners during their escape.
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