Haiti gang massacres around 180 people, targeting elderly

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, urged countries to improve efforts to stop arms trafficking to Haiti. Picture: Hadi Mizban

Around 180 people were killed over the weekend in Haiti's Cite Soleil area, Haiti's prime minister's office said on Monday, after attacks that an NGO said were ordered by a gang leader who suspected his child had been made ill using witchcraft.

"A red line has been crossed," the office said in a statement, adding it would "mobilize all forces to track down and annihilate" those responsible, including Wharf Jeremie gang leader Monel "Mikano" Felix, whom it accused of planning the attack.