The FBI is expected to assist in negotiations, ABC News has learned.
The Ohio-based group was about to return to the U.S. after building an orphanage in Haiti.A Haitian gang has been blamed for kidnapping a group at a Haitian airport that included 17 missionaries, five of them children, according to officials.
Included in the group are 17 missionaries -- 16 Americans and one Canadian -- and two Haitian citizens, according to the U.S. Embassy. Two French priests were also kidnapped in a separate attack at the same location earlier in the day, the source said. The Ohio-based ministry Christian Aid Ministries confirmed in a statement that a group of 17 people were"abducted" while on a trip to an orphanage on Saturday.
A sign marks the entrance of the home office of Christian Aid Ministries in Millersburg, Ohio, Oct. 17, 2021.that the 400 Mawozo gang kidnapped the group while they were in Ganthier, about 17 miles east of Port Au Prince.
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