Haiti ? Hundreds of U.N. peacekeepers raided Haiti’s largest and most violent slum Friday, seizing a portion of it in a six-hour gunbattle that left a gang member dead and two soldiers wounded, officials said.

More than 700 heavily armed blue-helmeted troops from seven countries participated in the pre-dawn raid on Port-au-Prince’s sprawling Cite Soleil slum, entering the mazelike shantytown in armored vehicles and on foot as U.N. helicopters circled above.

The peacekeepers seized several abandoned buildings in a section known as “Boston” that had been used by gangs to stage attacks. The raid sparked an intense firefight within the densely populated slum of 300,000 people.

Two U.N. soldiers were slightly wounded, one by gunfire and the other in an unspecified incident unrelated to the fighting, U.N. spokesman Jean-Jacques Simon said.

The spokesman said U.N. troops killed one suspected gang member and wounded four others.