UN calls for foreign security forces to be deployed faster to quash Haiti gang wars

Armed gangs control much of Caribbean country's capital with reports of 40 rape victims a day in areas, UN reports

The UN has called for the deployment of international security forces in Haiti to be accelerated after a report that at least 1,379 people were killed or wounded in gang warfare and 428 people kidnapped in the country between April and June this year.

Service providers report receiving an average of 40 rape victims a day in some areas of the capital," warns the new report from the UN's office in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.