Haiti: US guns pour into Port-au-Prince, fuelling surge in violence - BBC News

Every kind of gun is flooding into Port-au-Prince. Haitians are blaming the US.

2 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Gangs in Haiti have easy access to weaponsBy Nomia IqbalBBC News, Cap-Haitien, HaitiHaiti is a state out of action.

More than two weeks after the country's prime minister resigned, following a surge of violence in Port-au-Prince, details of a presidential transitional council have still not been revealed.

One of the challenges this council will have to face is the illegal trafficking of guns, which has powered the gangs which have taken over.

The escalation in violence has sparked an exodus from the capital.

Among those leaving is 14-year-old David Charles whose father Israel is nervous with excitement as he waits for his son's bus to arrive in Cap-Haitien.

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