Les Cayes, a city of about 400, 000 people, is about 140 miles (225 kilometers) southwest of Port-au-Prince.

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Outside the capital, several people were hurt when they rushed to get out of a school in the southwestern city of Les Cayes, said the Rev.

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On Friday, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti said the situation was tense in the southwestern town of Les Cayes a day after demonstrations over the rising cost of living there led to an attack against the U.N. office.

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