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US resumes deportation flights to Haiti despite continuing bloodshed

Burned-out cars in the street
The remnants of burned-out vehicles in Port-au-Prince. Photograph: Mentor David Lorens/EPA

More than 70 Haitians expelled from the United States have been flown back to Haiti on the first deportation flight since heavily armed gangs launched a bloody insurrection which has paralysed the capital and forced the prime minister from office.

The flight, which landed in the port city of Cap-Haïtien early on Thursday, was described as “inhumane” by human rights activists who warned that deportees would likely be targeted by the criminal factions who control most of the country.

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