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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Etienne Côté-Paluck, Manisha Ganguly and Tom Phillips

‘The ground shook’: drone attacks help Haitian government wrest control of capital from criminal gangs

An armed soldier launches a small drone.
A drone is launched during a Haitian police operation against armed gangs in Port-au-Prince on 28 November 2024. Photograph: Patrice Noel/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

The earth beneath Jimmy Antoine’s apartment shuddered and for a split second he feared another natural disaster had struck, like the 2010 cataclysm that brought Port-au-Prince to its knees.

“The ground shook like it does during an earthquake. You tremble like everything might collapse,” said the 23-year-old trainee mechanic, recalling how he and his panicked neighbours raced out on to the street.

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