The leader of a Haitian gang, the 400 Mawozo, on Thursday, threatened to execute American hostages that were kidnapped over the weekend. “I swear by thunder that if I don’t get what I’m asking for, I will put a bullet …
The 400 Mawozo gang that kidnapped 17 American and Canadian missionaries in Haiti has demanded $17 Million dollars, or $1 million dollars for the release of each hostage. Haitian Justice Minister Liszt Quitel said that the 17 missionaries were being …
Haiti’s streets were flocked with thousands of workers who held a strike due to the country’s inefficient handling of kidnapping cases that was further galvanized by the recent abduction of a mainly American missionary group by a violent gang. The …
A group of 15-17 US missionaries and their families were taken off a bus at gunpoint by gang members after visiting an orphanage in the village of Croix-des-Bouquets, near the Haitian capitol of Port-au-Prince. The hostages are continuing to be …
South African Police have arrested 56 people including armed forces veterans for kidnapping three ministers and holding them hostage at a hotel in Pretoria. “After attempts to negotiate with the hostage-takers to release the hostages had failed, police resorted to …
The Taliban publicly hung up the bodies of four alleged kidnappers in the heart of the western Afghan city of Herat as a warning to others, local government officials said. Herat Deputy Governor Mulwi Shir Ahmad Ammar said that the …
Northern Mexico police found 38 people including 22 foreigners abandoned on a roadside on Tuesday after they were abducted from a hotel. The chief prosecutor of the northern state of San Luis Potosi Federico Garza Herrera said the victims, 16 …
Italian prosecutors have launched an abduction investigation Monday against the grandfather of a 6-year-old Israeli boy who was the sole survivor in a cable car disaster earlier in May. Pavia Mayor Mario Fracassi announced on Monday evening that the Pavia …
Nigerian residents said that the authorities imposed a mobile network operations shutdown in Zamfara so that kidnappers in the area will be apprehended. Reuters reported that two Zamfara residents, who traveled to Sokoto state just to make phone calls said …
Nigerian police said that some gunmen kidnapped 73 students in a school attack in northwestern Nigeria on Wednesday, September 1, which prompted authorities to shut down primary and secondary schools across Zamfara state. ABC news reported that the new kidnappings …