Militants loyal to Haiti’s President Jean-Bertrand Aristide have attacked protesters demanding he resign with barrages of shotgun fire, stones and bottles.

SCORES of foreigners, including missionaries and aid workers, streamed out of Haiti yesterday, fleeing a surging rebellion and mounting violence in government-held areas.

Scores of foreigners including missionaries and aid workers streamed out of Haiti today, fleeing a surging rebellion and mounting violence in government-held areas.

A REBEL force trying to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide grew in size as former exiled paramilitary troops joined the insurrection and aid workers hurried to get doctors and supplies to the cut-off north.

Haitian rebels in nearly a dozen towns went on a rampage that has left at least 42 dead and prompted fears of a coup d’etat, in the strongest challenge yet to embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,

Hundreds of Haitians looted TV sets, mattresses and sacks of flour from shipping containers in the port town of St Marc, one of several communities seized by rebels in a bloody uprising against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Police reinforcements fought bloody battles with gunmen as they tried to retake Haiti's fourth-largest city from rebels.