Chants of 'freedom' echoed through the streets outside an aid facility in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, on Monday where just days earlier an American nurse and her daughter were kidnapped by armed men.
Witnesses told the Associated Press that Dorsainvil was working in her organization's small brick clinic when a group of 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.Other members of the community said the unidentified men asked for US$1 million in ransom, something that's become standard as Haiti's gangs turn to slews of kidnappings to line their pockets and bleed the country dry.
Such groups are often the only institutions in areas far beyond the reach of the law, but have increasingly had to shut down operations as violence has deepened. The closures often leave thousands of vulnerable families without access to basic services like health care or education. "If they leave, everything will shut down," the Haitian worried. "The money they are asking for, we don't have it."U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller refused to confirm Monday whether the abductors had made any demands, or to answer other questions.
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