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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent and agencies

US airlifts embassy staff out of Haiti as gangs besiege political area

Five armed police officers on patrol in a street in Port-au-Prince
Police on patrol in Port-au-Prince on Friday. Photograph: Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters

The US military has carried out an operation in Haiti to airlift non-essential embassy personnel from the country and added US forces to bolster embassy security, after dozens of heavily armed gang fighters tried to seize the political quarter of its capital, Port-au-Prince.

The German foreign ministry meanwhile said its ambassador joined other EU representatives in leaving for the Dominican Republic on Sunday.

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