{"id":115254,"date":"2021-02-27T09:21:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T01:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115254"},"modified":"2021-02-27T09:21:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T01:21:34","slug":"multiple-deaths-in-haiti-prison-break-including-jail-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115254","title":{"rendered":"Multiple deaths in Haiti prison break, including jail director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Multiple-deaths-in-Haiti-prison-break-including-jail-director.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Multiple-deaths-in-Haiti-prison-break-including-jail-director.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Multiple people were killed<br>in Haiti, including the director of a prison in the suburbs of<br>capital Port-au-Prince, after several inmates escaped, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDivision inspector Paul Hector Joseph, who is in charge of the civil<br>prison of Croix des Bouquets, was killed in the prison,\u201d Gary Desrosiers, the<br>spokesperson for the Haitian national police, said Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMultiple prisoners have escaped,\u201d he added, without specifying the number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least six people were shot dead in the streets near the prison. The victims\u2019 identities could not be determined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around midday Thursday, inmates at the prison in the heart of downtown said they heard bursts of gunfire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photos and videos showing men escaping the jail quickly went viral on<br>social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Employees at second-hand clothing stores located in a market adjacent to<br>the prison told the media that they were forced to give their<br>merchandise to the escaped prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A large police force was mobilized to the prison, regaining control of the<br>building in the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2014, more than 300 inmates successfully escaped the high-security<br>prison, which was built with Canadian funding and opened in 2012. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Multiple people were killedin Haiti, including the director of a prison in the suburbs ofcapital Port-au-Prince, after several inmates escaped, police said. \u201cDivision inspector Paul Hector Joseph, who is in charge of the civilprison of Croix des Bouquets, was killed in the prison,\u201d Gary Desrosiers, thespokesperson for the Haitian national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":115257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}