Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (AP)-Eight people including an Irish missionary and a 3-year-old child went missing on Monday Guns found a storm in an orphanage in HaitiThe latest attack in the area controlled by a powerful collection of armed gangs.
The authorities scrambled to transfer dozens of children and employees from the St.-Helen orphanage run by the offices in Mexico and France, an international donation Nose Petits Frarse at Sures. According to its website, the orphanage cares more than 240 children.
One of the kidnappers in the beginning of Sunday was the Irish missionary Gina Heratti, who has worked in Haiti for 30 years and oversee the orphanage. He was beaten up in 2013 when suspects broke into the orphanage and according to the Irish media, killed his colleague.
On Sunday, the latest high-profile abduction associated with a foreign missionary was identified. In 2021, 400 Mavozo gang kidnapped 17 missionariesEast of the capital, including five children from an American-based organization in Gantier, Port-O-Prince. Majority Was held captive For 61 days.
Sunday was kidnapped in Kanscoff, Once peaceful community Port-and-Prince in the metropolitan region. The doors of the orphanage remained closed on Monday as Haiti’s Social Welfare and Research Institute worked with UNICEF to identify the sites where children and employees could be transferred.
No one has claimed responsibility for kidnapping in the area controlled by the gang federation, which is “known” Staying together“This year the US nominated it as a foreign terrorist organization.
Ireland Deputy Prime Minister Simon Harris said in a statement that the kidnapping of Hereti and others was “deeply worrisome”, and called for his immediate release.
In a previous interview with the Irish Independent newspaper, Harati was remembered that the orphanage was threatened with death when suspects broke in the orphanage in 2013.
“They were quite aggressive. One had a hammer, one had a gun,” he said. Harati said that after running to help him and others, his colleague was killed with a hammer.
He said, “In the last place you will expect violent death in Haiti, will be in a house with people with special needs,” he said. “Life is not just appropriate. We know that we just have to accept it.”
At least 175 people in Haiti were kidnapped from April by the end of June this year, with 37% of cases in Port-A-Prince.
The United Nations said that most of the kidnappers were convicted on the Grand Revin and Village Day Duy gangs who are part of the Viv Ansanam Federation.
Pierre-Richard Luxama and Danica Koto, Associated Press