7 Killed During Haiti Prison Riot
Guards shot and killed seven prisoners Wednesday during a riot at Haiti’s national penitentiary, police said.
Four police officers were injured in the violence, which erupted when a group of inmates broke the locks on their cells and attacked the guards, said Sony Marcelus, a police inspector at the penitentiary.
The crowded penitentiary in Port-au-Prince holds 1,070 inmates, hundreds more than it was built to accommodate.
Several high-ranking members of the Lavalas Family political party of ousted former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are at the prison.
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