"We are facing the consequences of a cholera epidemic and in two weeks the elections, so the population is scared," he said. "It's a volatile situation."  He pointed to the fact that demonstrations began in separate areas as evidence that the outbreak was not spontaneous.  "Right now, security forces ... seem to have control already of the situation," he said.  In addition, a police station was torched, the U.N. peacekeeping force said.  An employee at the office of Tortug Air told CNN that the four daily flights typically scheduled between Port-au-Prince and Cap Haitien had been canceled due to "political tension." She declined to be named.  "It's not safe to walk in the streets," Marc George, a resident of Cap Haitien, told CNN by telephone. "All the schools and banks are closed. People are fighting the soldiers of MINUSTAH."  The demonstrations began after rumors spread that a Nepalese contingent of peacekeepers may have spread the disease, he said. "So they attack them," he said. "The people were shooting."  But Imogen Wall, a U.N. spokeswoman, denied that its peacekeepers were responsible for the outbreak.  Cyrus Sibert, a journalist with Radio Souvenir FM, said he was aware of six injuries, one of them a child who was fatally shot.  "Many people from the slum area, they are burning tires, throwing rocks and bottles," he said. "And they are very mad against MINUSTAH. And there are rumors that MINUSTAH is responsible for the cholera. And the cholera killed many people in Cap Haitien. Now taxi drivers are afraid to bring people to the hospital. It is very difficult to find a taxi driver when someone is sick."  He said trash trucks were picking up the dead.
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