The Treacherous Mission to Rescue Americans Trapped in Haiti

Rescue groups are struggling to evacuate American citizens who remain trapped in Haiti, where a deadly eruption of gang violence earlier this month has left the state teetering on the brink of collapse, with at least 1,500 people killed so far in the ongoing crisis.

Evacuations are taking place in a “very, very challenging environment,” Paul Doucet, a regional director at International SOS, an emergency medical and security organization that has been evacuating people from Haiti, told The Daily Beast.

“There’s a lot of nervousness. The city has really devolved into lawlessness,” Doucet said, recounting that rounds of gunshots have been going off nearly every night, leaving people who want to escape on edge and in a “panic.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.