Police say 11 inmates killed in shootouts following breakout from prison in central Haiti

Inmates broke out of a prison in the coastal town of Saint-Marc in central Haiti on Friday, police said, as authorities in the country struggle to quell widespread gang violence.

In a news briefing in Port-au-Prince, a spokesman for Haiti’s National Police, Michel Ange Louis Jeune, said that eleven suspected escaped inmates were killed in shootouts with police.

He did not provide further details, including how many inmates escaped.

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