'Haiti will go hungry soon' as looting sparks food shortage crisis and society 'plunges into chaos' – with experts warning 'the country is falling apart' as 'Barbecue' gang leader's thugs take control

Haiti ‘will go hungry soon’, it has been warned, as looting sparks a food shortage in the Caribbean country where out-gunned police are battling rampaging gangs.

Despite Haiti’s government on Thursday extending a state of emergency and nighttime curfew by a month to try and curb the violent gang attacks, US government officials fear that law and order could collapse within hours.

Meanwhile, Haiti’s main port was forced to close – days after thousands of inmates were broken out of two…