At Least Eight Killed in Haiti Prison Break
One of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders was among the inmates who fled the prison in Port-au-Prince.
Recaptured inmates are led by the police outside the Croix-des-Bouquets Civil Prison after an attempted breakout, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday.Credit.Dieu Nalio Chery/Associated Press
By Reuters
Feb. 25, 2021
CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti At least seven prisoners and a police officer were killed and another person injured on Thursday after several inmates, including one of Haiti’s most powerful gang leaders, escaped from a prison in Port-au-Prince, the capital, the authorities said.
The spokesman for the national police, Gary Desrosiers, told the Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste that about 40 prisoners were apprehended after the riot at the Croix-des-Bouquets Civil Prison, in north Port-au-Prince. It is not known how many prisoners in total had escaped.
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