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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Evens Sanon and Dnica Coto

Gang attack on Haitian hospital leads to a call for help and an unlikely triumph for police

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

The bullets began piercing the windows of the hospital as women cradling young children ran from room to room searching for a safe place to hide while the heavily armed gang drew closer.

The louder the gunfire grew, the more the women screamed until a hospital employee begged them to stay quiet and ordered them to lie on the ground. Mothers with babies and shaky hands forced one breast into their tiny mouths to keep them quiet, wondering if they would live through Wednesday’s attack on the Fontaine Hospital Center and the surrounding community in the Haitian slum of Cite Soleil.

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