Gunmen have invaded another town north of Haiti’s capital, just a week after a massacre killed at least 115 people in the country’s central region.

Armed men launched fresh attacks on the Haitian town of Arcahaie, local media reported on Wednesday, as families mourned the growing list of victims of a massacre days earlier in an agricultural town some 60 km (37 miles) to the north.

A week after one of the worst gang massacres in Haitian history, another gang has besieged the strategic coastal town of Arcahaie, threatening even greater expansion of criminal control throughout Haiti.

The death toll in a brutal gang attack last week on a small town in central Haiti has risen to 115, a local official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The attack on residents of Pont-Sondé on Oct.