UNITED NATIONS (CMC) — The United Nations (UN) Monday said that armed attacks in the department of Artibonite, Haiti have triggered new displacements and put additional pressure on already very vulnerable communities in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (Caricom) country.

UN spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, told the daily news briefing that the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) of the armed attacks, while the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that more than 1,100 people were displaced following violence on May 26 in the commune of Petite Rivière de Bayonnais.

“Those who fled have sought refuge with host families within the city of Gonaïves, further straining threadbare resources available in these communities,”  said Dujarric.