10 executed by police in Haiti - residents

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Port-au-Prince - Police raided a slum building in Haiti's capital and executed at least 10 people, most of them young, neighbours told a human rights lawyer on Wednesday, the second day of an ineffective strike called by loyalists who want the return of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Police denied the report.

Lawyer Judy Delacruz said she saw trails of blood where neighbours told her police had dragged the bodies of those killed along an alley behind Ruelle Estime in the Fort National neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince.

The report comes the week after Haiti's interim government said police would act to end weeks of violence that killed at least 61 people - not including those reportedly killed on Tuesday.

IOL