Armed gangs attacked a displaced-persons camp inside a church near Haiti’s capital, killing dozens of people who had already fled violence once. The United Nations said at least 47 were dead and more than 20 injured, with numbers still moving. A Haitian rights group put the dead in the 30–40 range.
The raid began late Sunday, local officials said. Mayor-level accounts described executions, wounded civilians, and abductions. Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé’s office condemned the attack and said security forces were on high alert.
Residents asked a harder question: the church is minutes from a police station. Why was a shelter for displaced families left open to a night raid? Calls for the local police chief to resign followed.
Haiti’s gang crisis is not new. The UN has counted huge displacement, food insecurity for a large share of the population, and repeated massacres since the 2024 surge that helped push out an unelected prime minister. International missions have not produced street safety.
A news app owes readers the human fact first: people who had already lost homes were killed in a church. Everything else — mandates, funding, politics — is secondary to that.
