Eight individuals, together with six nuns, have been kidnapped within the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Friday, in accordance with the nation's affiliation of non secular orders, amid a continued improve in kidnappings.
“(We) have been saddened to be taught that six nuns from the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Anne, and others from the bus they have been on, have been kidnapped,” the Haitian Spiritual Convention mentioned in an inside memo seen by AFP .
An armed group kidnapped the ladies at round 7am (1pm GMT) because the nuns traveled to the varied colleges the place they work, a convention official informed AFP.
He offered no details about the opposite two kidnapping victims.
No ransom demand has been reported but.
The variety of kidnappings – concentrating on each well-known and extraordinary individuals – has been rising for a number of weeks in Port-au-Prince and on sure nationwide highways.
Final week, a physician and a justice of the peace have been kidnapped earlier than being launched after a ransom was paid.
The kidnappings come amid rampant gang violence in America's poorest state, the place political, financial and public well being methods are in tatters.
Final yr, the UN estimated that gangs managed about 80 p.c of Port-au-Prince.
The UN Safety Council agreed in October to ship a multinational mission to Haiti, led by Kenya, to help Haitian police, though it may take months earlier than it arrives.
