80 detainees escape Haiti prison

80 detainees escape Haiti prison

AgenciesUpdated: Wednesday, May 29, 2019, 02:28 AM IST
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Port-Au-Prince: At least six people have died in nearly weeklong protests demanding that President Jovenel Moise resign in Haiti, which saw fresh tensions and a major prison break on Tuesday. All 78 detainees at the prison in Aquin, a city of around 100,000 on the south coast of the country’s Tiburon Peninsula, escaped around midday, a national police spokesman said.

The exact circumstances of the prison break are unclear, but witnesses said it took place during an anti-Moise demonstration in front of the police station adjoining the penitentiary. Some 200 kilometers north of the prison, also saw clashes between police and hundreds of protesters in working-class neighborhoods. Thousands of people took to the streets. Some set fire to cars and looted stores to express their mounting frustrations over growing social inequalities worsened by systemic corruption. A youth was also shot dead.

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