A mob of murderous vigilantes fatally beat and burned 13 suspected gang members Monday in Haiti’s lawless capital city, which has been mostly controlled by criminals since the 2021 assassinat…
The men were stoned and lit on fire with gasoline-soaked tires in the Canape Vert section of Port-au-Prince after they were pulled from police custody by the mob during a traffic stop. Witnesses said the attack came as the purported gangsters were en route to back up their associates in a firefight with police.
A witness named Edner Samuel said after the mob beat the purported gang members into submission, they put tires on top of them, doused them in gasoline and lit them on fire. An Associated Press reporter witnessed the 13 bodies burning in the street. Bystanders look at the bodies of alleged gang members that were set on fire by a mob after they were stopped by police while traveling in a vehicle in the Canape Vert area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday.Six additional burned bodies were found by the AP reporter laid out on the streets of Turgeau. Some witnesses said they had been killed by cops and set on fire, but the news agency could not confirm their cause of death.
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