CNA Staff, Mar 6, 2024 / 15:30 pm
During the latest round of violence in Haiti, heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of the country’s main international airport after gangs attacked the country’s two biggest prisons and released thousands of inmates.
The Toussaint Louverture International Airport was closed when the attack occurred and had no passengers on site, but gang members exchanged gunfire with police and soldiers.
In an interview with “EWTN News Nightly” anchor Tracy Sabol, Stephen Destin, executive director of the Partnership for the Reconstruction of the Church in Haiti, said “international intervention is mandatory … to avoid bloodshed.”
Destin said there’s “no possible way” to leave the country because “all commercial flights [are] being canceled,” while “the main routes in and out of the capital” are being controlled by gangs.