The country has the highest per-capita rate of kidnappings in the world.
, said group members were being detained by an “armed gang” and “the mission field director and the American embassy are working to see what can be done.”the missionaries were abducted by the gang 400 Mawozo, a group known for mass kidnappings and targeting religious groups, citing organizations that track kidnappings in the country.
Sixteen Americans and one Canadian were reportedly captured, Gédéon Jean, director of the Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights in Port-au-Prince, told thesaid two Haitian nationals may also have been abducted. The family of the organization’s field director and one other man from Christian Aid Ministries did not visit the orphanage and were not part of the kidnapping, according to the
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