Anti-Aristide revolt spreads in Haiti

Hundreds of frenzied looters stripped sea containers in the port of Saint Marc of televisions, radios and corn flour, and set the empty containers ablaze a day after outnumbered police were forced to flee armed gangs.

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Hundreds of people looted shipping containers in the Haitian town of St Marc yesterday, a day after armed opponents of the government drove police out in a widening uprising against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Police also withdrew from the larger city of Gonaives,north of St Marc, after failing to defeat rebels in street battles that killed at least nine people on Saturday, witnesses said. Opponents of Mr Aristide said they set up barricades yesterday to block the main north-south highway in Cabaret, south-east of St Marc and about 13 miles north-west of Port-au-Prince, the capital.

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Crowds Loot Haiti Port; Uprising Spreads

ST. MARC, Haiti Feb. 8 — Hundreds of Haitians looted TV sets, mattresses and sacks of flour from shipping containers Sunday in this port town, one of several communities seized by rebels in a bloody uprising against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Using felled trees, flaming tires and car chassis, residents blocked streets throughout St. Marc a day after militants drove out police in gunbattles that killed two people. Many residents have formed neighborhood groups to back insurgents in their push to expel the president.

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