Mayor: More Than 12 Killed in Haiti as Gangs Vie for Control

Mayor: More Than 12 Killed in Haiti as Gangs Vie for Control
Armed police patrol in Haiti in a file photo. Richard Pierrin/AFP via Getty Images
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—More than 12 people were slain and numerous homes set on fire in a community near Haiti’s capital as gangs fight to control more territory, a mayor told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The incident occurred in the small town of Cabaret northwest of Port-au-Prince at nearly midnight Tuesday, Mayor Joseph Jeanson Guillaume said.