Suspected gang members were murdered during an attack on the Petion-Ville neighborhood just days after over ten people were killed in the same neighborhood.

The latest surge of violence occurs while the crisis-torn Caribbean island nation's political future remains uncertain after the resignation of the prime minister.

PHOTO | COURTESY Chaos

A Reuters reporter witnessed two alleged gang members, including a boss known as Makandal, being slain and set on fire. Reuters previously obtained footage showing the victims lying and being carried down the street with one man's hands severed.

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Makandal's family house was also set ablaze.

According to Radio RFM and police sources, the local populace was involved in a gunfight in Petion-Ville, located on the capital's southern outskirts, Port-au-Prince.

PHOTO | COURTESY police in a gun battle

Almost a year ago, a group of Port-au-Prince residents lynched and set fire to approximately a dozen individuals suspected of being gang members, initiating what became known as the Bwa Kale movement, a vigilante justice movement that rights organizations claim has occasionally been carried out alongside Haitian police officers.

Le Nouvelliste claimed that at least 15 people had been murdered in strikes near Petion-Ville, which is home to numerous expensive hotels and over a dozen embassies. Residents locked themselves inside their homes as armed men launched new attacks east of the city.

Petion-Ville is adjacent to hotels, which gang leader Jimmy "Barbeque" Cherizier vowed to go after last week, claiming that hotel owners were concealing old-guard politicians.

PHOTO | COURTESY Haiti residents 

Despite Prime Minister Ariel Henry's announcement last week that he would stand down, a demand of the increasingly vital gangs that dominate most of Port-au-Prince, violence has persisted while Henry stays outside the country.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and hundreds dead in Haiti amid widespread accusations of rape, arson, and ransom kidnappings, while food prices skyrocket and hospitals run out of critical supplies like blood and oxygen.