Anonymous ID: d24546 Aug. 1, 2023, 11:11 a.m. No.19279644   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/haiti-kidnapping-mother-daughter/2023/08/01/id/1129170/

 

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) โ€” The fate of an American nurse and her daughter kidnapped in Haiti last week remains unknown Tuesday as the U.S. State Department refused to say whether the abductors made demands.

 

Around 200 Haitians had marched in their nation's capital Monday to show their anger over an abduction thatโ€™s another example of the worsening gang violence that has overtaken much of Port-au-Prince.

 

Alix Dorsainil of New Hampshire was working for El Roi Haiti, a nonprofit Christian ministry, when she and her daughter were seized Thursday. She is the wife of its founder, Sandro Dorsainvil.

 

Witnesses told The Associated Press that Dorsainvil was working in the small brick clinic when armed men burst in and seized her. Lormina Louima, a patient waiting for a check-up, said one man pulled out his gun and told her to relax.

 

โ€œWhen I saw the gun, I was so scared,โ€ Louima said. โ€œI said, โ€˜I donโ€™t want to see this, let me go.โ€™โ€

 

Some members of the community said the unidentified men asked for $1 million in ransom, a standard practice of the gangs killing and sowing terror in Haiti's impoverished populace. Hundreds of kidnappings have occurred in the country this year alone, figures from the local nonprofit Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights show.