Haiti reeling after 70 killed in gang attack

PORT-AU-PRINCE: The Haitian govt has deployed specialist

anti-gang police

units, it said Friday, after an apparent massacre northwest of

Port-au-Prince

that the United Nations said left at least 70 dead.
The attack, carried out early Thursday in the town of Pont Sonde, some 100 kilometers from the capital, also saw scores of houses and vehicles torched after gang members open fired.

"Members of the Gran Grif gang used automatic rifles to shoot at the population, killing at least 70 people, among them about 10 women and three infants," UN Human Rights Office spokesman said on Friday. The

Haiti

PM's office said in a statement that "this latest act of violence, targeting innocents, is unacceptable and demands an urgent, rigorous, coordinated response from the state."