Haitians protest kidnappings as FBI says it will assist in effort to find missionaries


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  • Monday, 18 Oct 2021

A sign on the door to the entrance of the home office of Christian Aid Ministries in Millersburg, Ohio, U.S., October 17, 2021. REUTERS/Aaron Josefczyk

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Haitians on Monday mounted a nationwide strike to protest a growing wave of kidnappings, days after the abduction of a group of missionaries prompted FBI involvement and fueled international concerns over gang violence in the crisis-stricken Caribbean nation.

Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries on Sunday said a group of its missionaries, 16 Americans and one Canadian, were in Haiti to visit an orphanage when they were abducted https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-should-free-missionaries-haiti-without-ransom-lawmaker-2021-10-17 near the capital, Port-au-Prince. Security experts suspect the kidnapping was carried out by a gang known as 400 Mawozo.

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