Gunmen in Haiti killed nine people in the latest spasm of violence by the Caribbean nation's powerful gangs, a community leader said Wednesday.Over the weekend, nearly 200 people were killed in Port-au-Prince as a gang leader convinced that his son's illness stemmed from a voodoo spell attacked followers of the religion,

The latest killings, which include at least 90 men and 37 women, all elderly, according to the U.N.’s information, bring the death toll just this year in Haiti to 5,000 people, Türk said at a press conference ahead of Human Rights Day on Tuesday.

A warlord ordered the slaying of elderly slum residents he suspected of giving his son a severe illness through witchcraft, the U.N. and human-rights groups said.