US flights to Haiti halted for month after gun attacks

America's aviation regulator suspends US flights to the country after three gun attacks on planes.

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Aircraft from JetBlue, Spirit and American Airlines were all hit by bullets on Monday after flying to the capital, Port-au-Prince.

In the attack on the Spirit plane, a flight attendant suffered minor injuries but no passengers were hurt.

Also on Monday, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said two of its patients had been seized and executed by police and gang members in the capital.

The medical charity said its paramedics had been taking three patients in an ambulance to their medical centre when they were forced to divert to a public hospital, where officers and gang members took the wounded patients out of the hospitals grounds and killed them.

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