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Rioters control Haiti's second largest city.
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Cap Haitien, Haiti (CNN) -- Aid agencies are calling for an end to violence in northern Haiti as angry demonstrators accuse United Nations peacekeepers of starting a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 1,000 people.
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
Supplies in Cap Haitien are running out and the medical staff is overwhelmed as cholera mortality climbs, said Nigel Fisher, the humanitarian coordinator.
"We call upon all involved in these clearly orchestrated demonstrations to stop immediately so national and international partners can continue to save lives with our response to the cholera," Fisher said.
"Every day we lose means hospitals go without supplies, patients go untreated and people remain ignorant of the danger they are facing. It is vital that everything possible is done to contain this outbreak in Cap Haitien while we still can -- but this is very difficult in the current environment."
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.
Haitians say the cholera outbreak that has killed hundreds started when untreated sewage from Nepalese peacekeepers entered the water supply.
The United Nations has denied the assertion and says the protests may be politically motivated to create insecurity ahead of November 28 elections.
The U.N. mission, known by the acronym MINUSTAH, urged the population to be vigilant and "not let itself be manipulated by the enemies of stability and democracy in the country."
The cholera outbreak confirmed last month in northwest Haiti has killed 1,034 of the 16,799 people hospitalized with the disease, according to the health ministry.
Cap Haitien is in Haiti's north department, which has had the nation's highest rate of cholera deaths.
Of the 1,578 people hospitalized in the department from cholera, 119 have died. The 7.5 percent death rate is the nation's highest, according to the health ministry.
It has been confirmed in seven of the country's 10 departments. The United Nations has appealed to international donors for $164 million in aid.
It says it anticipates as many as 200,000 Haitians will be sickened with cholera over the next six to 12 months.