‘We didn’t expect such horror’

Members of the Kenya MSS patrolling the National Port Authority in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in this file photo. — Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times

ILRES Theophile, a farmer living north of Haiti’s capital, said he woke up in the middle of the night on March 29 to the unmistakable sound of heavy gunfire.

Gran Grif, a feared gang in the area, had warned for days that it had planned to attack a nearby community.