Resistance Group Seizes City, Frees 100 Prisoners
An armed opposition group seized control of Haiti’s fourth-largest city, burning a police station and reportedly freeing 100 prisoners and leaving at least four people dead.
Members of the Gonaives Resistance Front began the assault shortly after noon in Gonaives, setting the mayor’s home and then the police station on fire while officers fled, Haitian radio reports said.
At least four of the opponents of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide were killed in clashes with police, Gonaives Resistance Front leader Wynter Etienne told Radio Vision 2000.
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