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‘They tried to murder everyone’: Haiti reels after deadly gang attack

More than 6,200 people are staying with relatives or in makeshift shelters after massacre in central Haiti town.

Survivors of a deadly gang attack in central Haiti last week have described waking up to gunfire and walking for hours in search of safety, as the country continues to grapple in the aftermath of the assault that killed at least 70 people.

Dozens of Gran Grif gang members armed with knives and assault rifles killed infants, women, the elderly and entire families in their attack last Thursday on Pont-Sonde, about 100km (62 miles) northwest of Port-au-Prince in the Artibonite region.

“They tried to murder everyone,” Jina Joseph, a survivor, told The Associated Press news agency.

Jameson Fermilus, who had crouched in a corridor next to his house as smoke and gunfire filled the air, was among thousands of survivors who walked for hours, looking for safety.