The U.N. migration agency says internal displacement in Haiti, largely caused by gang violence, has tripled over the last year and now surpasses 1 million people — a record in the Caribbean nation.

The UN migration agency reports a large-scale internal displacement crisis in Haiti, driven by severe gang violence. Over a million Haitians have been displaced, marking a three-fold increase. The situation is compounded by mass deportations and insufficient security measures.

More than a million people, over half of them children, are now displaced within Haiti where gang violence continues unabated despite the start of a United Nations-backed security mission last year, U.

Gang violence in Haiti drove a record of more than 1 million people from their homes last year, the United Nations said

The UN migration agency reports that gang violence in Haiti has caused a threefold increase in internal displacement within a year, affecting over 1 million people. The violence has led to a collapse of services and food security in Port-au-Prince,

The number of people internally displaced by gang violence in Haiti has tripled to more than one million, the United Nations' International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned on Tuesday. The situation is particularly dire in the capital,