Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Protesters angry over the government's handling of a cholera outbreak clashed Monday with peacekeepers in two towns in northern Haiti, where the outbreak began last month. In Cap Haitien, schools and banks were closed, residents set fire to tires at entrances to the town and gunfire ricocheted through the streets, residents and officials told CNN. Vincenzo Pugliese, a spokesman for MINUSTAH, the United Nations' stabilization mission in Haiti, said anti-riot police were coping with the demonstrations, which he said began in the morning in at least two locations and had not caused any fatalities among peacekeepers or the population. "Apparently, some people were injured by bottles or stones," he said.
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Unrest spreads to second town in north
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Flights canceled to Cap Haitien
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Gunfire ricochets in streets, protesters clash with peacekeepers
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"The population is scared. ... It's a volatile situation," says U.N. official
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