Haiti on the brink of chaos: Desperate fugitive mercenary bursts into a family home and bleeds to death, a civil servant is lynched and burned to death while prisoners revolt at two jails after assassination of president
Haiti is on the brink of chaos after the assassination of the president with desperate fugitive mercenaries dying in the streets, a town official lynched and burned to death and prisoners mutinying in jails. Gunfire rang out across the capital Port au Prince last night and there were prisoner revolts and attempted escapes at at least two jails. Police said they had captured 15 Colombians and two Haitian-born US citizens following gun battles which raged in the hills above Port-au-Prince after Jovenel Moise was shot dead in the early hours of Wednesday. The mercenary leader was identified as the former chief of a top Colombian counter terrorist military unit, and police claimed some of the assassination squad had been in the country for three months before the hit. Authorities are still hunting for more of the mercenaries, and one wounded in the fighting managed to escape and clamber into a family home in the affluent Pétion-Ville neighbourhood where Moise lived. His lifeless corpse was