Children stand while camping out with other people fleeing from violence after the murder of a local gang leader, in the courtyard of Cite Soleil's town hall in Port-au-Prince, Haiti December 7, 2019. Picture taken December 7, 2019. REUTERS/Valerie Baeriswyl
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Venite Bernard's feet are bloodied and torn because, she said, she had no time to grab her sandals when she fled her shack with her youngest children as gangsters roamed the Haitian capital's most notorious slum, shooting people in their homes.
Now the 47-year-old Bernard and her family are camped in the courtyard of the town hall of Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince, along with more than 200 others, fleeing an outbreak of violence that is part of what civic leaders say is the country's worst lawlessness in more than a decade.
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