Two members of the Little Sisters of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus were among those killed earlier this week by armed gang members in the central Haiti city of Mirebalais.

Two Catholic nuns were killed by gang gunmen in Mirebalais amid a prison break and citywide assault, underscoring the country’s deepening security crisis and unchecked gang violence.

The latest wave of violence to engulf Haiti – including a mass jailbreak and deadly protests – has allowed criminal gangs to tighten their grip on key urban areas, plunging the country further into