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DR, Haiti: Deaths at the border

Categories: Caribbean, Latin America, Dominican Republic, Haiti

Solidaridad Fronteriza reports [1] (ES) that members of religious organizations in Ouanaminthe, Haiti, have carried out religious rites at the mass grave containing the bodies od 24 Haitians who died of suffocation on January 11 in a vehicle in which they were trying to cross the border into the Dominican Republic. According to Baturrico [2] (ES), another Haitian was killed during protests over the manner in which the bodies were being repatriated.