Haiti gang kills 110 people leader accused of witchcraft

A gang leader reportedly ordered the killings after his son came down with a "mystery illness".

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The National Human Rights Defence Network (RNDDH) said a local gang leader had targeted them after his son fell ill and subsequently died.

The gang leader reportedly consulted a voodoo priest who blamed elderly locals practising "witchcraft" for the boy's mystery illness.

The United Nations said the number of people killed in Haiti so far this year in spiralling gang violence had reached "a staggering 5,000".

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