Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites that includes a mass escape from the country’s two biggest prisons.
Toussaint Louverture international airport in the capital Port-au-Prince was closed when the attack occurred, with no planes operating and no passengers on site.
An armoured truck was deployed on the tarmac in an effort to prevent the attackers from entering airport grounds, as scores of employees and other workers fled from whizzing bullets.
The attack occurred just hours after authorities in Haiti declared a state of emergency and ordered a night-time curfew due to violence in which armed gang members overran the two biggest prisons and
