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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Dnica Coto

UN mission details deadly attacks in Haiti's capital and questions government's delayed response

Haiti Protest - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

More than 260 people were killed during recent gang attacks on two communities in Haiti’s capital, according to a report on Monday by the U.N. political mission in Haiti that questioned the delay in the response by authorities.

The report notes that during the first attack — in late January on Kenscoff, in the southern end of the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince — it took Haiti’s military, police and a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police roughly five hours to respond.

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