A police officer looks on during an exchange of gunfire between gangs and police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024.
Haiti's main airport temporarily shut down Monday as gangs attempted to seize control, the U.S. embassy reported, the same day a new interim prime minister was expected to take over the direction of a country facing a surge of violence.·A police officer looks on during an exchange of gunfire between gangs and police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Monday.
"The U.S. Embassy is aware of a temporary pause in operations at the Touissant L'Overture airport as of Nov. 11," the embassy's statement said. "The security situation in Haiti is unpredictable and dangerous." Spirit said in a statement that the plane had been damaged and taken out of commission upon landing in the northern Dominican city of Santiago. The passengers aboard the Spirit flight on Monday will be taken back in another aircraft to Fort Lauderdale, where the flight departed from, Spirit said.
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