(10 Oct 2024)
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Saint-Marc, Haiti – 9 October 2024
1. Various of medical staff attending to injured at hospital
2. Rosebertha Joseph, resident of Pont-Sondé wounded in the attack, on hospital bed talking to family member
3. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Rosebertha Joseph, wounded in attack: ++STARTS ON SHOT 1++
“I was hiding with my son behind a vehicle and two men appeared and walked towards me. One of them said ‘don’t shoot her.’ When I ran, the other one shot me in the back.”
4. Various of patients in hospital
5. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Myriam Fièvre, mayor of Saint-Marc: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 6++
“We are updating the number of dead every day; so far, we have recovered 115 bodies. Yesterday, they told us they found four more bodies that we have not yet been able to identify. We are looking to identify them so we can add them to the list we have.”
6. Various of displaced people entering shelter
STORYLINE:
The death toll in a brutal gang attack last week on a small town in central Haiti has risen to at least 115, a local official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The attack on residents of Pont-Sondé on October 3 was one of the biggest massacres that Haiti has seen in recent history.
Dozens wounded in the attack were being treated at Saint-Nicolas, the lone hospital in of nearby city of Saint-Marc.
A few showed knife wounds, but most were being treated for bullet wounds.
Myriam Fièvre, mayor of Saint-Marc, said Wednesday that the toll had risen to 115 and would likely keep rising as authorities continue to look for bodies and haven’t been able to access certain areas of the town.
The U.N. had previously said that at least 70 people were killed last week when the Gran Grif gang invaded the town of Pont-Sondé in the central Artibonite region.
The victims included babies, young mothers and the elderly, with the gang approaching Pont-Sondé via canoes to catch residents by surprise, according to a local human rights group.
Survivors have questioned why authorities did not do anything to stop the attack since the gang had warned in a video posted on social media that it planned to target Pont-Sondé.
More than 6,200 survivors have fled Pont-Sondé and temporarily settled in the coastal city of Saint-Marc and surrounding areas.
As Saint-Marc struggles with the sudden influx of people, Fièvre warned that the Gran Grif gang is infiltrating nearby communities after attacking Pont-Sondé.
Gran Grif has about 100 members and has been accused of crimes including murder, rape, robberies and kidnappings.
AP video shot by: Pierre Luxama
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