Haiti unrest: armed gangs target international airport after mass jailbreak

Heavily armed gangs 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 two biggest prisons. The crime lord behind a week-long gang mutiny against Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, has claimed the Caribbean country could be plunged into civil war unless its temporarily exiled leader steps down.

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