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The death toll in a brutal gang attack last week on a small town in central Haiti has risen to 115, according to a local official.
Associated Press reports that the attack on residents of Pont-Sonde on October 3 was one of the biggest massacres that Haiti has seen recently.
The mayor of the nearby city of Saint-Marc, Myriam Fievre, said on Wednesday that the toll had risen to 115 and would keep rising because authorities are still looking for bodies and haven’t been able to access certain areas of the town.
The UN had previously said that at least seventy people were killed last week when the Gran Grif gang invaded the town in the central Artibonite region.
The victims included babies, young mothers and the elderly. Ga]ng members used canoes to approach Point-Sonde and surprised residents. Survivors =ce the gang questioned why the authorities did nothing to stop the attack in a video posted on social media.
