Haiti newsman tells of escape from 'all-powerful' gang
“The bullets were flying thick and fast,” said Wilmann Vil, the sole survivor of a gang attack that killed two fellow Haitian journalists just outside Port-au-Prince. Vil himself has gone into hiding, fearful that the criminal gang, one of several terrorizing Haiti’s capital city, might find him. In that fateful encounter on Thursday, Vil and two colleagues — Wilguens Louissaint and Amady John Wesley — were walking along a dried-up river bed in the foothills overlooking Port-au-Prince while working on a story. As they walked, members of a gang seeking to dominate the area and control...