Washingtton.-The United States government announced on Monday the temporary closure of its embassy in Haiti and the suspension of any movement of diplomatic personnel within the country, due to intense shootings recorded in the vicinity of Port -au -Prince, the Haitian capital.
In a statement from the State Department through social network X, US officials have been confined within the diplomatic enclosure, located in the Tabarre sector, northeast of the city and close to the International Airport.
“US government staff has suspended all official movements outside the Embassy Complex,” said the State Department.
Similarly, the diplomatic entity reported that there are “intense shootings in the Tabarre neighborhood, near the embassy”, and recommended that people avoid the area.
Tabarre is a municipality located near Puerto Príncipe airport, northeast of the Haitian capital.
Only between January 1 and June 30, at least 3,141 people were killed in Haitian territory, according to a report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights published in July.
At least less eight people, including a three -year -old boy and an Irish missionary, were kidnapped on Sunday in an orphanage located in an area of the upper part of Puerto Príncipe.
Given the violence “Intolerable and unacceptable”, all the Net Network Institutions Frères et Soeurs-Haiti, among which are the Saint-Damien hospital, the life program and the Family Hospital of the Saint-Luc Foundation, announced their “difficult” but “necessary decision” to “close their doors from yesterday to the unconditional release of the kidnapped people.”
For several months, the commune of Kenscoff is the scene of violent clashes between the forces of order and armed gangs, which do not stop multiplying attacks against this commune with the aim of achieving their control.
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At least 1,500 people were killed in Haiti between April and June, according to the UN, while between January 1 and June 30, at least 3,141 people were killed in Haitian territory, according to the ACNUDH office.
