Aug 28 (Reuters) – Nearly 200,000 people were forcibly returned to Haiti in the first eight months of this year, a U.N. official told an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Friday, days after a brutal gang attack killed nearly 50 people in a town near the capital.
This represents at least 20,000 people more than in the same period of last year, Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Indrika Ratwatte told the meeting.
(Reporting by Sarah Morland, Editing by Iñigo Alexander)
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