PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haiti's government has deployed specialist anti-gang police units, it said on Friday, after an apparent massacre northwest of Port-au-Prince that the United Nations said left at least 70 dead.

Carried out early on Thursday in the town of Pont Sonde, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the Haitian capital, the attack saw scores of houses and vehicles torched after gang members opened fire.

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