Speaking to the Associated Press, a man called Néne said: “The gangs started burning everything in sight. I was hiding in a corner all night.”
Paul Pierre, 47, who was walking with his partner in search of shelter after their house was burned down, added: “There were gunshots left and right.”
Martineda, a woman who declined to give her last name out of fear, was left homeless after armed gunmen torched her home. She also has a four-year-old son.
The woman said: “I told him, ‘Don’t be scared. This is life in Haiti.'”
Asked to recount what had happened overnight, she said: “Gunfire, gunfire, gunfire everywhere! No one slept. Everyone was running.”
The attacks were the biggest and most violent since Henry resigned. Hundreds had to flee their…
