This week’s gang attack on a Haitian town killed at least 70 people, UN says

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The U.N. human rights office says the tally of victims killed in a brutal attack on a small town in central Haiti by heavily armed gang members has risen to at least 70. Bertide Harace, spokeswoman for the Commission for Dialogue, Reconciliation and Awareness to Save the Artibonite, told Magik 9 radio station on Friday that bodies lay strewn on the streets of Pont-Sondé following Thursday’s attack. Among the victims is a young mother, her newborn baby and a midwife. The attack is blamed on the Gran Grif gang, which operates in the central Artibonite region and is considered one of Haiti’s cruelest gangs.