https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3zw2dpqgpoHaiti gang kills 110 people accused of witchcraft.
The National Human Rights Defence Network (RNDDH)
said
a local gang leader had targeted them after his son fell ill and subsequently died.
The gang leader reportedly consulted a
voodoo priest
who blamed elderly locals practising "witchcraft" for the boy's mystery illness.
The killings happened in the Cité Soleil neighbourhood of the capital.
According to reports, gang members seized scores of residents aged over 60 from their homes in the Wharf Jérémie area, rounded them up and then shot or stabbed them to death with knives and machetes.
Residents reported seeing mutilated bodies being burned in the streets.
RNDDH estimated 60 were killed on Friday while another 50 were rounded up and murdered on Saturday, after the gang leader's son had died of his illness.
While RNDDH said that all the victims were over 60, another rights group said some younger people who had tried to protect the elderly had also been killed.
Local media said that elderly people believed to be practitioners of voodoo had been singled out because the gang leader had been told his son's illness had been caused by them.
Rights groups said the man who had ordered the killings was Monel Felix, also known as Mikano.
Mikano is known to control Wharf Jérémie, a strategic area in the port of the capital.