Fuel distribution in Haiti resumes after police flush out gang gunmen who had blockaded the Caribbean country's main oil import terminal for two months
Fuel distribution has resumed in Haiti after police flushed out gang gunmen who had held the country's main oil import terminal for two months.
The gang stranglehold on the Varreux terminal had paralysed the country, causing severe fuel shortages and halting deliveries of drinking water -- key to fighting a cholera outbreak. "Several tanker trunks left the terminal under a heavy police escort," the Haitian National Police said onThe facility supplies most of the fuel consumed in the poorest country in the Americas, and it fell under criminal control on September 12.Haitian security forces had announced on Friday that they regained control of the oil terminal, which is southwest of the capital Port-au-Prince
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