Around 40 people have been killed in an attack carried out by a criminal gang in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Sunday night.

– The search operation is still ongoing. Some people are still missing, Mayor Massillon Jean told AFP on Monday, describing the incident as “a night of terror”.

The city has been plagued by gang violence for several months and in June this year, the UN migration agency IOM stated that almost one and a half million people were displaced in the country as a whole.