8 including an Irish missionary are missing after gunmen storm a Haiti orphanage

Gena Heraty: Family of Irishwoman kidnapped from orphanage in Haiti ask people to 'keep her in your hearts'

Ms Heraty, who has worked in the Caribbean country for decades, was among eight people, including a three-year-old child, taken from an orphanage on Sunday.

Family of Irishwoman kidnapped in Haiti ask people to ‘keep her in your hearts’

Gena Heraty and seven other hostages, including a three-year-old child, were kidnapped from an orphanage in Kenscoff on Sunday.

Mass Kidnapping at Haitian Orphanage Deepens National Crisis - teleSUR English

Armed gunmen stormed the Saint-Hélène orphanage on Sunday, abducting eight individuals, including Irish missionary Gena Heraty and a 3-year-old child, in a chilling escalation of gang violence that has paralyzed communities near Port-au-Prince. The attack, which involved assailants breaching the orphanage wall before seizing hostages, is believed to be the work of Viv Ansanm, a powerful gang alliance recently designated a foreign terrorist organ…

Gang violence in Haiti forces Farmers to flee as missionary, child among 8 kidnapped

The incident adds to Haiti’s growing humanitarian crisis, with over a million people already displaced due to gang violence, according to international aid groups.

Irish lay missionary, child among several kidnapped from orphanage in Haiti - Catholic Review

A longtime Irish missionary in Haiti has been kidnapped in what may be a targeted attack amid that nation’s long-running armed gang violence and instability. Gena Heraty was among several people — including a three-year-old child — taken in the early hours of Aug. 3 after gunmen breached the Saint-Hélène orphanage in Kenscoff, near Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince. Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste claimed that the attackers were believed to be …

Irish missionary among eight missing after gunmen storm orphanage

Her family say they are ‘absolutely devastated’