At least ten people were killed in an armed gang attack in the Haitian department of Artibonite, in the center of the country, local media reported this Sunday.
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The massacre was perpetrated on Saturday in the village of Morne-Robert, located in the municipality of Saint-Marc (Artibonite), and was attributed to the Gran Grif gang, which operates in that Haitian department, reported the Radio Télé Galaxie station.
The information added that the victims were farmers from the municipality of Verrettes, about sixty kilometers north of Port-au-Prince, who were heading to the Pont-Sondé market to sell their products.
Other local media raise the number of people killed in this massacre to thirteen, a figure that has not yet been officially confirmed by the authorities.
The head of the Committee of the Initiative for Peace in Lower Artibonite, André Saint-Louis, cited by Radio Télé Confiance, pointed out that most of the victims were peasants who used that route precisely to avoid attacks by armed gangs that control the main road, at the height of the municipality of Liancourt.
HAITÍ SUMIDO EN EL TERROR: MASACRE EN ARTIBONITO EVIDENCIA LA AMENAZA DE LAS PANDILLAS QUE EL SALVADOR BUSCA ERRADICAR
Al menos diez personas fueron asesinadas durante un brutal ataque armado en la aldea de Morne-Robert, en la comuna de Saint-Marc, departamento de Artibonito,… pic.twitter.com/pPBLFgkChW
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Saint-Louis also denounced that an individual named Kenkenn, who is part of the armed gang that operates in Liancourt, had threatened those who traveled on that secondary road and the authorities did nothing about it.
The Gran Grif gang, to which this massacre is attributed, is the most important in Artibonite and was responsible for 80% of civilian deaths in said demarcation between 2022 and July 2025, according to the UN.
Both Gran Grif and the Viv Ansanm gang coalition, which controls most of Port-au-Prince, were designated as terrorist organizations in May 2025 by the United States Department of State.
The head of the Gran Grif is Luckson Élan, who, according to the UN, “has long been involved in activities that threaten the peace, security and stability of Haiti, as well as the entire region” and “has been expanding his territorial control, committing human rights violations and trafficking in weapons and ammunition.”
Armed gangs are fought in Port-au-Prince by Haitian security forces, by the Gang Suppression Force (GFS), authorized in September 2025 by the UN Security Council, and by Vectus Global, a private military force created in the United States and contracted by the Haitian Government.
Last month, a contingent of more than 2,000 soldiers sent by the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, joined that campaign, with the pretext of finding four soldiers from that country who were part of the GSF and who have been missing since October 18 when they were ambushed in Santo, which is part of the municipality of Croix-des-Bouquets, in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince.
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