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Meanwhile, cries for help emerged on social media for a group of priests trapped inside a church in the Carrefour-Feuilles neighborhood, which endured much of the attack by the Viv Ansanm gang coalition that began late Tuesday.

“They’re trying to take more areas, but police are there, making sure that doesn’t happen,â€� Lionel Lazarre, deputy spokesman for Haiti’s ºÃÉ«tv Police, told a press conference.

He said police have new plans to fight that already control 85% of Haiti’s capital, but declined to provide details, citing safety reasons.

Lazarre noted that police recently seized 10,000 bullets, weapons and drugs from a minibus in the town of Mirebalais, northeast of Port-au-Prince. He said two of the four people carrying the ammunition were lynched by a mob on Sunday, while the others escaped.

The latest attacks come days after William O’Neill, the U.N.’s human rights expert on Haiti, .

“The risk of the capital falling under gang control is palpable," O’Neill said Tuesday, even as Haitian police work with led by Kenyan police to help quell gang violence.

O’Neill and others have called for a reinforcement of the mission, which the U.S. has said lacks funding and personnel.

Last year, more than 5,600 people were reported killed across Haiti. Gang violence in recent years.

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Associated Press reporter Dánica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico contributed.