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Video includes purported threat from Haitian gang to kill kidnapped U.S. missionaries
Headline from CBS News, on the newest of 3 developments
An unverified video posted online appears to feature the leader of the "400 Mawozo" gang threatening to shoot all 17 of the hostages if $17 million in ransom isn't paid.
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Seventeen missionaries from the United States and Canada, some of them minors, were kidnapped in Haiti, according to the organization Christian Aid Ministries. CNN's Kylie Atwood reports.
Members of the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries group, including 16 U.S. citizens and one Canadian, were kidnapped after visiting an orphanage in Haiti.
Children are among the group of 17 U.S. missionaries that has been kidnapped by a gang in Haiti, according to a religious group with direct knowledge of the incident.
U.S. officials are working with Haitian authorities to try to secure the release of 12 adults and five children with a U.S.-based missionary group who were abducted by a gang notorious for killings, kidnappings and extortion
Authorities in Haiti say that the gang behind the majority of abductions in the Caribbean nation between June and September is also responsible for Saturday’s kidnapping of 17 Christian missionaries.
One of Haiti's most powerful gangs -- the 400 Mawozo -- is believed to be behind the kidnapping of 17 American and Canadian missionaries, a source in the Caribbean country's security forces told CNN Sunday.
FBI agents and other U.S. officials are helping Haitian authorities hunt for the 12 kidnapped adults and 5 children linked to the Christian Aid Ministries in Ohio.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A gang that kidnapped 17 members of a U,S.-based missionary group has demanded a $17 million ransom for them, according to Haiti’s justice minister, as quoted by the Wall Stree
Justice Minister Liszt Quitel said the FBI and Haitian police are in contact with the kidnappers and seeking the release of the missionaries abducted over the weekend outside the capital Port-au-Prince by a gang called 400 Mawozo, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The gang that kidnapped a group of 17 American and Canadian missionaries in Haiti has asked for $1 million each for their release, a top Haitian official said Monday, according to the Wall Street Journal.
