Gangs in Haiti launch fresh attacks, days after a new prime minister is announced

Haitian gangs laid siege to several Port-au-Prince neighborhoods, exchanging gunfire with police for hours and burning homes as hundreds fled the violence.

"The gangs started burning everything in sight," said a man called Néne, who declined to give his last name out of fear. "I was hiding in a corner all night."

He walked with a friend as they carried a dusty red suitcase between them that was stuffed with clothes — the only thing they could save. The clothes belonged to Néne’s children, whom he had rushed out of Delmas 18 around dawn during a pause in the fighting.