The government says the country’s gangs crossed a “red line” in deadly attack after a gang leader reportedly blamed Voodoo adherents for his child’s illness.

Nearly 200 people in Haiti were killed in brutal weekend violence reportedly orchestrated against voodoo practitioners, with the government on Monday condemning a massacre of “unbearable cruelty.” The killings in the capital Port-au-Prince were overseen by a powerful gang leader convinced that his son’s illness was caused by followers of the religion,