Protestors in Haiti attack UN peacekeepers in cholera backlash

Crowds hurled rocks, set up burning barricades and blocked roads to protest over the foreign troops and the government’s response to the crisis A woman covers her face from the smoke of burning tyres set up by demonstrators in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP Protestors in Haiti have attacked UN peacekeepers over suspicion that Nepalese soldiers brought the cholera epidemic which has swept the country and killed 1,000 people. Crowds in two northern towns hurled rocks, set up burning barricades and blocked roads to protest the foreign troops and the government’s response to the crisis, rattling…

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Protestors in Haiti attack UN peacekeepers in cholera backlash

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