(7 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pont-Sondé, Haiti – 7 October 2024
1. People walking down street
2. Various of cars and motorbikes driving on streets in front of empty markets and businesses
3. Various of police by trucks
4. Police officer with binoculars
5. People walking with their arms in the air to show they were not armed
6. Police armoured vehicle driving
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Saint-Marc, Haiti – 6 October 2024
7. Various of displaced refugees in a school
8. Mayor of Saint-Marc, Myriam Fièvre, visiting school
9. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Myriam Fièvre, Mayor of Saint-Marc:
“We have a cruel gang in Artibonite. It was carnage what they did these past days. These deaths are unimaginable. It shows a deterioration of the situation.”
10. Various of displaced people moving around the school patio
11. Woman with her children sitting on the ground
STORYLINE:
The usually bustling main street of Pont-Sondé remained largely empty Monday, with only a handful of cars passing through as gunfire rang out in the distance.
The market area near the site where a brutal gang attack on Thursday left at least 70 people killed and injured dozens was abandoned.
After the massacre, Haiti’s government deployed armoured vehicles, elite police officers, and medical supplies to the area as Prime Minister Garry Conille visited the lone hospital overwhelmed with injured patients.
On Monday morning, police were still trying to access areas in Pont-Sondé
Haitian National Police and the mission led by Kenyan police are spread thin, struggling to deploy and maintain forces in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
It was the biggest massacre that Haiti’s once peaceful central region had seen in recent history, with thousands now facing an uncertain future, stripped of their jobs, homes, and families.
Thousands left homeless by the violence in Pont-Sondé had walked west for hours until reaching the city, hoping to find safety, nourishment and a place to lie down.
“These deaths are unimaginable,” said Mayor Myriam Fièvre as she met with survivors.
A majority of the 6,270 people left homeless by the attack found temporary shelter with relatives who live nearby, according to the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration.
But more than 750 others have nowhere to go, joining the more than 700,000 people already left homeless by gang violence across Haiti.
AP video shot by Pierre Luxama
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