It comes as a wave of accelerating violence sweeps the nation.
Jean Hislain Frederick, deputy mayor within the Cite Soleil district of Port-au-Prince, mentioned the preventing erupted on Friday in a conflict between members of two rival gangs, with at the least 50 folks killed and greater than 50 wounded.
Dozens of individuals have died in 4 days of gang battles in a violent neighbourhood of Haiti’s capital, authorities mentioned.
The violence started a day after the primary anniversary of the assassination of president Jovenel Moise.
Since Mr Moise was killed, violence has soared in Haiti as gangs battle over territory, and the federal government has struggled to crack down.
The help group Docs With out Borders mentioned hundreds of individuals have been trapped in Cite Soleil with out consuming water, meals and medical care.
The organisation referred to as on different humanitarian teams to assist and urged the gangs “to spare civilians”.
In a press launch, it mentioned three of its members have been treating the wounded in an space of Cite Soleil referred to as Brooklyn.
“Alongside the one highway into Brooklyn, now we have encountered corpses which might be decomposing or being burned,” Mumuza Muhindo, Docs With out Borders’ head of mission in Haiti mentioned within the assertion.
“They may very well be folks killed in the course of the clashes or folks making an attempt to go away who have been shot — it’s a actual battlefield. It’s not doable to estimate how many individuals have been killed.”
Native officers mentioned the preventing concerned the rival gangs generally known as G9 and G-Pep.
The G9 is a gang coalition also called G9 Household and Allies, led by a former police officer, Jimmy Cherizier.
Often known as Barbecue, Cherizier has been linked prior to now to massacres, and his coalition is believed to have allied with Mr Moise’s right-wing celebration.
After the president was killed, he referred to as the crime “cowardly and villainous”.
G-Pep is a gang that arose in Cite Soleil, though it’s allied with different armed teams from round Haiti’s capital.
