SAINT-MARC, Haiti — Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille embarked on a trip to the United Arab Emirates and Kenya on Saturday to seek security assistance in the aftermath of one of the deadliest gang attacks in the Caribbean nation in recent years.
Haiti is reeling after members of the Gran Grif gang stormed through the town of Pont-Sonde in the western Artibonite region early on Thursday, killing at least 70 people, including infants, and forcing over 6,000 residents to flee.The massacre caused widespread shock even in a country that has grown accustomed to outbreaks of violence and where the national police force is outgunned and understaffed.
Conille said he would discuss with his counterpart in the United Arab Emirates 'how we can find regular flows to help the Haitian national police to combat security.'On Friday, Conille, flanked by heavily armed police, visited patients at a hospital who were being treated for injuries from Thursday's attack.He promised reinforcements were en route from the capital, Port-au-Prince.
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