Twenty killed in gang fighting in Haitian slum
About 20 people died in clashes between rival gangs fighting a turf war in one of the Haitian capital’s violent slums, a senior police official said on Friday. Michael Lucius, director of the judicial police, said the bloodletting occurred Thursday night and early Friday in the Martissant neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, where the victims died of gunshot wounds or were hacked to death with machetes. Full Story