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UN says violence still rising in Haiti despite support mission

Members of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force arrive at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on October 18, 2024. [AFP]

Gang violence is surging in Haiti despite the deployment of a multinational force to prop up the struggling Caribbean country's police, a top United Nations official warned Tuesday.

"The security situation remains extremely fragile, with renewed peaks of acute violence," Maria Isabel Salvador, the UN secretary-general's special representative to Haiti, told the Security Council.

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