The humanitarian group accused authorities in the lawless Haitian capital of repeatedly stopping its vehicles and threatening its staff with violence, including death and rape.

Doctors Without Borders has suspended its activities in Port-au-Prince following a series of threats by Haiti’s police forces, the organization announced Tuesday. Death and rape are among the threats that Doctors Without Borders — or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) — staff have received from police officers,

Gang violence surged in Haiti, with a paroxysm of bloodshed leaving at least 150 dead and driving the charity Doctors Without Borders to suspend its operations in the country. Haiti has been racked by armed groups who operate with impunity, unrestrained by a government that controls little of the nation’s actual territory.

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) will stop operations in Haiti’s capital after its staff were threatened by members of the police.

Law enforcement officers and a vigilante group attacked a Doctors Without Borders ambulance amid a broader crisis of violence plaguing Haiti.

Two wounded patients were killed after police officers and vigilantes attacked an ambulance in Haiti on Monday, according to humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Tuesday that it is stopping operations across the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and its wider metropolitan area due to an escalation in violence and threats to its staff from members of the Haitian police.

We can no longer continue operating in environment where our staff is at risk of being attacked, raped, or even killed,' says MSF's Haiti representative - Anadolu Ajansı