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The group – 16 Americans and one Canadian citizen – were on their way home from building an orphanage, according to a statement from the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries, which supports 9,000 children in Haitian schools.
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The area in which they were seized is the territory of the 400 Mawozo criminal gang, which has been blamed for previous kidnappings earlier this year including those of a priest and a French nun in April. [The gang] has a history of targeting religious groups and has more recently begun more large-scale kidnappings employing barricades on well-travelled roads to scoop up any passersby in the cars and buses that they stop.
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Haiti – which currently has the worst global record for kidnapping – has been struggling with a sharp increase in the gang-related crimes that had diminished after the president, Jovenel Moise, was fatally shot at his private residence on 7 July, and after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck south-west Haiti in August and killed more than 2,200 people.