The bodies of Yvon Buissereth and his unidentified nephew were found on Saturday afternoon in the commune of Laboule. This is near Pelerin, where President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his private home in July last year. Buissereth, director of the Haitian Public Company for the Promotion of Social Housing, and his nephew were traveling in a government vehicle and were found inside the charred car, Lafontant said. He said a gang trying to control the area was probably responsible. “It was a terrible incident,” he said. The Ti Makak gang, meaning ‘Little Macaques’, is fighting the Toto gang for control of this area. Gangs in the capital Port-au-Prince and beyond have grown more powerful and waged violent turf wars since Moisse was killed. Buissereth and his nephew were killed while driving on a road that a growing number of Haitians use to avoid the Martissant region, which connects Port-au-Prince with Haiti’s southern region and is controlled by warring gangs that have killed or injured dozens of civilians in this area. Prime Minister Ariel Henry condemned Buissereth’s killing as a “barbaric act” by armed gangs in Laboule. “His killers, as well as all other criminals who bring grief to the country, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and must answer for their shameful acts in the face of justice,” he wrote on Sunday in a social media post.