{"id":179404,"date":"2022-06-12T14:55:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T06:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=179404"},"modified":"2022-06-12T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T06:55:13","slug":"38-hostages-kidnapped-by-haiti-gang-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=179404","title":{"rendered":"38 hostages kidnapped by Haiti gang freed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2022\/06\/12\/image-66064-1655011457.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PORT-AU-PRINCE, June 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Nearly 40 people taken hostage in a mass kidnapping in Haiti&#8217;s capital Port-au-Prince were freed on Saturday, one day after they were abducted by a gang, a transporters&#8217; union announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The passengers who had been kidnapped were released&#8230; on 11 June,&#8221; the Haitian Owners and Drivers Association (APCH) said on Twitter, adding that the two minibuses they had been travelling in were also recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The association did not say whether a ransom was demanded and paid to the kidnappers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 36 passengers and two drivers were taken hostage on Friday morning by gang members from Village de Dieu, one of the capital&#8217;s slums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mass kidnapping came as Haiti finds itself in the grip of armed gangs, whom police have failed to confront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since June 1, 2021, Haitian authorities have lost control of the only road connecting Port-au-Prince to the southern half of the country, with a section of some 1.5 miles (two kilometers) under the sway of armed gangs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last weekend, three young Turkish women were released after a month in captivity. They had been kidnapped by the criminal gang that controls the entire region east of Port-au-Prince, up to the border with the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This gang, which hijacked the bus in which they were traveling from Santo Domingo, still holds five other Turkish nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the month of May alone, at least 200 kidnappings were recorded by the UN, overwhelmingly in Port-au-Prince. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORT-AU-PRINCE, June 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Nearly 40 people taken hostage in a mass kidnapping in Haiti&#8217;s capital Port-au-Prince were freed on Saturday, one day after they were abducted by a gang, a transporters&#8217; union announced. &#8220;The passengers who had been kidnapped were released&#8230; on 11 June,&#8221; the Haitian Owners and Drivers Association (APCH) said on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":179405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179406,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179404\/revisions\/179406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/179405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}