Port-au-Prince, Haiti.-The Haitian National Police (PNH) killed 16 members of the armed group Base Gran Grif, accused of being responsible for the killing of nearly 150 people in two massacres that occurred in October and at the beginning of this December.
According to the Police, the men died in an exchange of fire with public force agents during operations carried out in one of the strongholds of the Gran Grif Base in the town of Palmiste, in the central region of Artibonite.
The National Police intensifies its efforts to restore order and security in said department, the institution stated in a note published on its Facebook page, where it reiterated its determination to dismantle armed gangs to allow the population to carry out their activities.
He assured that he is intensifying his operations and interventions aimed at dismantling armed gangs throughout the national territory, particularly in the department of Artibonite, where significant progress is being made in the fight against organized crime.
Hospital attack
The attack and subsequent fire of the Bernard Mevs (HBM) hospital in Port-au-Prince by members of the armed coalition Vivre Ensemble (Living Together) has caused outrage and consternation in Haiti, a country where health is a luxury for the vast majority. majority of the population.
Indignation
—Government reacts
The Haitian Government expressed that it condemns with the utmost firmness the indescribable armed attack perpetrated against the Bernard Mevs hospital, located in Village Solidarité, the road that leads to the airport.