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American airline JetBlue said one of its planes was shot down on Monday. when he had just taken off from Port-au-Prince airport, heading to New York, the same thing that happened on the same day with the plane Spirit Airlines while flying over the capital of Haiti.

“Although the crew did not initially report any problems, a subsequent flight inspection later confirmed that “The outside of the plane was hit by a bullet,” JetBlue Airways spokesman Derek Dombrowski told reporters.

The representative noted that there is “We are actively investigating this incident in cooperation with the relevant authorities.”

Company suspended flights to Haiti until December 2, a measure that others such as Spirit Airlines and American Airlines have also taken due to a surge in violence by armed gangs trying to take control of the poor Caribbean country.

This Monday, a crew member of a Spirit Airlines commercial aircraft attempted to land in Port-au-Prince from Fort Lauderdale (Florida, USA). He was wounded by shots from the ground. and the plane was diverted to Cibao Airport in Santiago de los Caballeros, in the Dominican Republic.

Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince and Haiti’s main airport was closed that same Monday due to escalating violence gangs controlling the metropolitan area, which coincided with the appointment of new Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils Aimé by the Transitional Presidential Council, which fired Harry Conil.

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“Port-au-Prince isolated again from the rest of the world “Because of gang violence,” reads a Haitian newspaper headline today. Le Nouvelliste.

Toussaint Louverture was closed to commercial traffic from February to May last yearafter armed gangs intensified their actions against the population, institutions, businesses and took over two densely populated prisons from which thousands of prisoners fled.

The terminal has long been the target of armed groups who, according to a UN report, caused the death of 4,900 people. for nine months of this year.

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Monday all political, economic and social forces in Haiti overcome your differences, put country first and work together “constructively” to advance the political transition.

For its part, the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support Mission (MMSS) reiterated its commitment to maintaining security and stability in Haiti.

(EFE)