ALBAWABA - Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has reported that at least two of its patients had been killed after one of its ambulances was ambushed and attacked in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital.
MSF said that its employees were viciously assaulted on Monday after "members of a vigilante group and law enforcement officers" impeded the work of an ambulance, which was carrying three young people with gunshot wounds.
When police attempted to detain the patients, the ambulance came to a halt approximately 100 meters from the MSF hospital in the capital's Drouillard neighborhood.
The wounded patients were transported a short distance away, and at least two were executed, according to the organization.
MSF stated that its employees had been "violently attacked, insulted, teargassed, threatened with death, and held against their will for more than four hours before being allowed to leave".
The fact that the violence has caused the closure of numerous clinics and hospitals, including the largest public hospital, the General Hospital, has made the humanitarian crisis much worse.
A brief pause in the chaos was brought about by the June arrival of an international peacekeeping force led by Kenya, but in recent weeks, the heavily armed gangs have resumed their efforts to take complete control of the nation's capital.
Tuesday, a day after three jetliners were shot down as they approached or departed Port-au-Prince, the United States suspended all civilian flights to Haiti for a month.
