To cheers of approval, rebels set ablaze an accused government hit man and shot another man Wednesday, raising the death toll to 46 in a popular uprising that began in this traditional hotbed of revolutionary fervor. President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said he would not resign. South of Gonaives, police attacked rebels holed up in a slum in the port city of St. Marc, and witnesses said gunmen loyal to Aristide torched homes, killing two people, as looting and reprisals raged. In northern Cap-Haitien, Haiti’s second-largest city, sporadic gunshots crackled overnight, attackers looted a food warehouse and Aristide militants set up blazing barricades to prevent a possible rebel incursion. Full Story
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