Armed rebels burn police station says Haitian radio
Friday, February 20, 2004
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Armed Haitian rebels attacked and burned a police station in the border town of Ouanaminthe late Thursday, sending police fleeing in the latest chapter of an armed insurrection that has claimed 55 lives in violence-torn Haiti in just over two weeks.
Radio Vision 2000, quoting a policeman in the neighboring town of Fort Liberte, said the assailants left the town on the border with the Dominican Republic after burning the police station and seizing two all-terrain vehicles belonging to a non-governmental organization.
In the city of Cap-Hatien 50 kilometers (30 miles) to the west, Mayor Wilmar Innocent said a rumor that the police station there was under attack spread panic through the town.
Police fled the station, but returned after the rumor turned out to be false, said the mayor.
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