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‘It was a massacre’: Haiti gangs carry out mass killings across the country

The Guardian has found evidence of a massacre that left at least 70 civilians dead as the country’s security forces struggle to control even the main roads to the capital

It is 2am when the gunshots begin. The neighbourhood in rural Haiti is asleep. “Pow, pow, pow – quick gunfire coming towards us from all directions,” says Merçide Daniel, a 45-year-old mother of four. “It was the Gran Grif gang coming to take over our neighbourhood and turn it into a base.”

Dozens of men wearing civilian clothes and bandanas, with rifles slung around their necks, swarm through the village, shooting indiscriminately.

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Jul 2, 2026 Haiti Organised crime Caribbean

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