A national police spokesman says Haitian police were overwhelmed by a series of coordinated violent attacks by gang members across the capital in which four officers were killed.
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Residents walk past a the body of a man during clashes between police and gang members at the Portail neighborhood in Port-au-Prince in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. Gunmen shot at the international airport and other targets in a wave of violence that forced businesses, government agencies and schools to close early. A bus set on fire by gang members at the Portail neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024.
Neither the police chief nor government ministers were injured or captured during Thursday’s attacks. A police union announced it was organizing a demonstration later Friday following the killings of two policewomen and two policemen at a station near the community of Canaan.
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