Group of 16 Americans and a Canadian, Including Five Children, Kidnapped in Haiti

A group of American missionaries working in Haiti were kidnapped by a notorious gang amid a sharp rise in abductions and political turmoil in the Caribbean nation, a spokesman for the Haitian Justice Ministry said.

The spokesman didn’t provide more details.

But the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries said in a statement Sunday that a group that included 16 Americans and one Canadian was kidnapped Saturday morning during a trip to an orphanage.