Haiti gang members kill around 40 displaced people in church attack near capital

Gang members attacked displaced people huddling inside a church near Haiti's capital, killing around 40, some of them execution-style, the mayor told AFP on Monday. "We have counted around 40 bodies. Searches are continuing. Some people are still missing" after the attack Sunday night in the town of Kenscoff in the hills above the capital, its mayor Massillon Jean said. He described "a night of terror" in a town plagued for months by gang violence. Jean said that among other places the assailants targeted a site housing people who had already fled violence. "The bandits raided a displaced persons camp located in a church. They executed several people. There are fatalities and dozens of wounded. Some people were abducted by the criminals," Jean said. In a statement issued after the attack, the office of Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime expressed "deep compassion" for the bereaved families and all the victims. Read moreHaiti schedules December presidential election despite security concerns The government also announced that reinforcements would be sent to restore security in the area. Kenscoff, a mountainous municipality southeast of the Haitian capital, has for several months b...