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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - U.N. peacekeepers seized a house belonging to one of Haiti's most wanted gang leaders but failed to catch him during a raid that also led to the arrest of 17 suspected gang members, officials said Wednesday.
Blue-helmeted troops stormed the vanilla-colored, two-story house of Amaral Duclona on Tuesday in the Port-au-Prince slum of Cite Soleil, but the gang leader escaped before troops could catch him, said Col. Alphonso Henrique Pedrosa, a Brazilian military spokesman.
Duclona, suspected in a wave of kidnappings, is the second gang leader this month to flee from the 8,800-strong U.N. force, which arrived in 2004 after a violent uprising toppled former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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