Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille embarked on a trip to the United Arab Emirates and Kenya on Saturday to seek security assistance in the aftermath of one of deadliest gang attacks in the Caribbean nation in recent years.

The UN human rights office said 10 women and three infants were among those killed. The motive remains unclear for what was one of the biggest massacres in Central Haiti in recent years.

U.N. human rights office says the death toll in a brutal gang attack on Pont-Sondé, a small town in central Haiti, has risen to at least 70.

Gang members brandishing automatic rifles stormed through a town in Haiti's main breadbasket region, killing at least 70 and forcing over 6,000 to flee, causing widespread shock even in a country grown accustomed to outbreaks of violence.

Prime Minister of Haiti Garry Conille on Saturday, October 5, scheduled to travel to Kenya and the United Arab Emirates to seek security support in response to a gang attack in one of its regions on Thursday,

The victims in the attack in a town north of Port-au-Prince included at least 10 women and three infants, the U.N. human rights office said Friday.

At least 70 people, including three infants, were killed in a gang attack in the central Haiti town of Pont Sondé, the United Nations Human Rights Office said in a statement on Friday.

The U.N. responds after gang members slaughter dozens in Haiti:: Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the U.N. Secretary-General"Turning to Haiti, given the violence that we have seen, the Secretary-General strongly condemns the attack by armed gangs in the town of Pont-Sonde in the Artibonite department that took place yesterday.

A woman is helped by others as she reacts upon seeing the dead body of her brother who was shot dead by unknown assailants, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti September 9, 2024. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol/File Photo (Reuters) - A gruesome hours-long gang attack in Haiti a couple of days ago left dozens dead,

A gang leader said the bloodshed was meant to cut the capital off from a rice-growing region of Haiti amid starvation conditions.

Armed men belonging to the Gran Grif gang killed at least 70 people as they passed through a Haitian town with automatic rifles shooting at residents, a spokesperson for the United Nations' Human Rights Office said on Friday.