Police fire tear gas into a camp for displaced people as protests accusing UN troops of bringing cholera turn violent.
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| Police fired tear gas at the crowds as protesters set fire to barricades and threw rocks as vehicles |
Police in Haiti have fired tear gas into a camp for internally displaced people in Port-au-Prince, the capital, following violent riots.
The unrest followed protests against the presence of United Nations peacekeepers in the country, as locals become increasingly angry over a cholera outbreak that many people blame on Nepalese troops.
The disease has killed more than 1,100 people in about three weeks.
Demonstrators set up burning barricades as vehicles were pelted with stones on Thursday. Several hundred rock-throwing youths attacked an open-top lorry carrying members of Minustah, the UN force in Haiti.
The young demonstrators, many of them in their teens, shouted slogans such as "Cholera: It's Minustah who gave it to us!" and "Minustah, go home" as the protests spread.
It was the fourth day the country had seen such demonstrations. The UN denies that it is responsible for the cholera outbreak. Earlier this week, at least two people were killed in riots against the UN in the north of Haiti...
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