PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Several cities in Haiti are in anarchy Monday as rebels continued a bloody campaign to drive police and army troops out, the BBC reported.
Prime Minister Yvon Neptune accused the civil opposition of trying to mount a coup, and said instead the opposition should play a role in stopping the violence and help the country to hold elections.
Trouble was reported in the port of Saint-Marc, where rebels torched a police station and crowds continued looting.
Television pictures showed hundreds of looters escaping with electrical items and sacks of flour.
Opposition spokesman Andy Apaid told the BBC that President Jean-Bertrand Aristide must resign and the international community's help was needed to "make sure the message gets through."
Aristide has offered to hold parliamentary elections, but insists he will serve out his second term in office, which ends in 2006.
In the north, police have fled from the city of Gonaives, as have most of the city's 20,000 inhabitants after rebels seized it Friday.
