2nd Shantytown Fire Rages in Haiti Capital
The second fire in as many days raged through a shantytown over the weekend, leaving hundreds homeless and the neighborhood virtually destroyed, police said.
Police had no immediate reports of serious injuries in the fire that broke out Saturday in a tin-roofed shantytown known as La Saline on the outskirts of the Haitian capital.
They declined to say whether arson was suspected in the fire, which followed a blaze Friday in which three young children were reported dead and hundreds of homes destroyed.
Residents of the neighborhood charged that the first fire was set deliberately by a former member of the Tonton Macoutes, the feared militia of ousted Haitain President Jean-Claude Duvalier.
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