Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille embarked on a trip to the United Arab Emirates and Kenya on Saturday (Oct 6) to seek security assistance in the aftermath of one of the deadliest gang attacks in the Caribbean nation in recent years.

Gang members brandishing automatic rifles stormed through a town in Haiti's main breadbasket region, killing at least 70 and forcing over 6,000 to flee, causing widespread shock even in a country grown accustomed to outbreaks of violence.

The victims in the attack in a town north of Port-au-Prince included at least 10 women and three infants, the U.N. human rights office said Friday.

The U.N. responds after gang members slaughter dozens in Haiti:: Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the U.N. Secretary-General"Turning to Haiti, given the violence that we have seen, the Secretary-General strongly condemns the attack by armed gangs in the town of Pont-Sonde in the Artibonite department that took place yesterday.

At least 70 people, including three infants, were killed in a gang attack in the central Haiti town of Pont Sondé, the United Nations Human Rights Office said in a statement on Friday.

A gang leader said the bloodshed was meant to cut the capital off from a rice-growing region of Haiti amid starvation conditions.

The tally of victims killed in this week's brutal attack on a small town in central Haiti by heavily armed gang members has risen to at least 70.

The U.N.'s migration agency says nearly 6,300 people have fled their homes in the aftermath of an attack in central Haiti by heavily armed gang members that killed at least 70 people

Prince, HaitiHaitian Prime Minister Garry Conille embarked on a trip to the United Arab Emirates and Kenya this weekend to seek security assistance, in the aftermath of one of the deadliest gang attacks the country has seen in recent years.