By Harold Isaac (Reuters) -Around 180 people were killed over the weekend in Haiti's Cite Soleil area, Haiti's prime minister's office said on Monday, after attacks that an NGO said were ordered by a gang leader who suspected his child had been made ill using witchcraft.

A coastal community in Haiti’s capital is reeling days after a gang leader was accused of killing more than 100 people to avenge his son’s death.

A gang leader ordered the massacre of at least 110 people in Haiti's Cité Soleil slum over the weekend after a voudou priest accused elderly people in the area of having practiced witchcraft