November 17, 2010 -- Updated 0853 GMT (1653 HKT)
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Burning tires and cars sent thick black smoke across Cap Haitien, Haiti, where protesters set a police station ablaze. Commercial flights were suspended Tuesday in the country's second-largest city.
The protests are affecting efforts to reach cholera victims in the area, aid agencies said in a news release late Tuesday.
Aid workers have suspended clean water projects to slum areas, and canceled flights to deliver soap and other supplies to affected areas, the statement said
Haiti's government appeared to have lost control of Cap Haitien as angry demonstrators took to the streets for a second day Tuesday. A U.N. peacekeeper killed at least one demonstrator Monday.
It says it anticipates as many as 200,000 Haitians will be sickened with cholera over the next six to 12 months.
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