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Armed gang ‘storms Haiti hospital and takes hundreds of hostages including newborn babies’ | World News<\/p>\n
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An armed gang has stormed a hospital in Haiti and taken hundreds of hostages including newborn babies, the boss of the medical facility has said.<\/p>\n
Women and children are also said to have been kidnapped from the Fontaine Hospital Centre in the capital of Port-au-Prince.<\/p>\n
Pleading for help on social media, the hospital’s founder and director Jose Ulysse – who himself has been targeted by gangs before – said: “We are in great difficulty.”<\/p>\n
It is not clear why the assailants may have taken people hostage, but the community in the sprawling Cite Soleil slum has become overrun by gangs that have unleashed increasingly violent attacks.<\/p>\n
Civilians in the area are routinely raped, beaten or killed.<\/p>\n
A recent UN report highlighted one gang in Haiti that is involved in extortion, hijacking of goods and general violence against civilians – and has form for kidnapping people for ransom.<\/p>\n
Read more world news:<\/strong> Haitian gangs have grown more powerful since the 2021 assassination of Haiti’s<\/strong> President Jovenel Moise.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, at least 20 armed gang members snatched a patient from an operating room after bursting into a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders.<\/p>\n The criminals gained access after faking a life-threatening emergency, the organisation said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a>
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