PORT AU PRINCE: More than 400 prisoners were on the run in Haiti on Friday (Saturday in Manila) a day after they escaped from jail in a violent breakout that left 25 people dead, including the prison director, officials said.
The body of a dead inmate lies on the pavement by the Croix-des-Bouquets prison from where many prisoners escaped and where several people were killed, in Croix-des-Bouquets, suburb of the Haitian capital, on February 25, 2021. - Multiple people were killed February 25 in Haiti, including the director of a prison in the suburbs of capital Port-au-Prince, after several inmates escaped, police said. "Divisional inspector Paul Hector Joseph, who is in charge of the civil prison of Croix des Bouquets, was killed in the prison," Gary Desrosiers, the spokesperson for the Haitian national police, told AFP. (Photo by Reginald LOUISSAINT JR / AFP)