The fire on Thursday night that destroyed one of the Pedernales Free Zone's clothing warehouses, whose population lives mainly from informal and bilateral trade with Haiti, has exacerbated tensions at the border of a population already prey to a difficult economic situation.

Friday, the community of Pedernales woke up, worried about the survival of families who depend on the sale of ball clothes (clothes in bundles), bought in this free zone.

In addition, the fact that the fire truck that went to the scene of the incident ran out of water and could not prevent the destruction of the warehouse and the stock of clothing, angered the population in front of the lack of resources of the fire department.

So far, the causes of the fire remain unknown, but according to several concordant sources including some of the Dominican investigators, it would be a fire arson lit by former local Dominican workers, to avenge themselves for having been returned and replaced by Haitian workers.

SL/ HaitiLibre