Gangs try to seize control of Haiti’s main airport in latest attack on key sites

Soldiers guard the entrance of the international airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (Odelyn Joseph/AP)

Heavily armed gangs have tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the country’s prisons.

The Toussaint Louverture International Airport was closed when the attack occurred, with no planes operating and no passengers on site.