Haiti: Hundreds shelter at school to escape Haiti gang war

Name: Haiti: Hundreds shelter at school to escape Haiti gang war
Uploaded: 25 Jul 2022, 09:39:56 AM
Duration: 01:42
Channel: TIMESOFINDIA.COM

1 views | Jul 25, 2022, 09:39:56 AM | AP

Hundreds of children and adults sheltered at a high school in Haiti's capital Saturday after fleeing shooting in a neighborhood where fighting between two rival gangs in recent weeks has caused dozens of deaths and destroyed homes. Francisco Seriphin, general coordinator for the religious community group Kizito, said 315 people had taken refuge in the Saint-Louis de Gonzague school, which is in the Delmas district neighboring the violence-wracked Cite Soleil neighborhood. Classes are out for summer vacation, and classrooms at the high school have been converted into dormitories, where teenagers, children and toddlers sleep on small mattresses provided by the nonprofit group. Some adults are sleeping on the ground without mattresses. Young people chatted and joked in the schoolyard Saturday, while others played soccer and basketball or jumped rope.