Haiti’s main international airport remains shut down for the second time this year after two United States commercial passenger planes were hit by suspected gang gunfire, leaving the conflict-torn state cut off from the travel industry.

A council tasked with restoring order to the nation said it was replacing Prime Minister Garry Conille with businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aimé.

Haiti’s airport is temporarily closing as gangs were attempting to take control of it, the US Embassy reported, the same day a new interim prime minister was expected to take over the direction of a country facing a surge

The United States on Tuesday banned all civilian flights to Haiti for a month, a day after a jetliner was shot at on approach to the capital and as a