REBEL police officers rioted in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on Thursday in protest at the killing of more than a dozen colleagues by criminal gangs.
The rioting officers blame the government for not taking action.
More than 100 demonstrators blocked streets, burned tyres, broke security cameras and damaged vehicles.
Local media said several officers broke through the gates of the prime minister’s residence and attempted to enter Haiti’s international airport.
The National Union of Haitian Police Officers says 14 men have been killed since the start of the year in various gang attacks on police stations.
Seven officers were killed in shootout on Wednesday alone, according to Haiti’s National Police.
Scores of civilians and angry police officers took to the streets in Port-au-Prince to denounce the violence following the murder of two officers inside a police station in a town in northern Haiti and the execution-style killing of four more on the street outside.
Some of them reportedly went to the official residence of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, Vant Bef Info said.
When they found it empty, they headed to Port-au-Prince airport where Mr Henry had just landed after a summit in Argentina.
Protesters apparently tried to gain access to the airport by breaking its windows, but Mr Henry managed to slip away, Haiti’s Radio Tele Metronome said.
Many businesses and schools remained shut on Thursday in the wake of the protests.
Port-au-Prince and other cities have been racked for months by escalating deadly gang warfare, and Haitian media have reported that the country has seen a marked rise in kidnappings since the start of the year.
