US Edition8 including an Irish missionary are missing after gunmen storm a Haiti orphanage
KENSCOFF, HAITI, AUG 3 – The kidnapping reflects escalating gang violence in Haiti, where over 3,100 people have been killed and 1.3 million displaced in the first half of 2025, UN data shows.
- Nine people, including an Irish missionary and a three-year-old child, were kidnapped from an orphanage in Haiti on Sunday, according to officials.
- Gena Heraty, the director of the Sainte-Hélène orphanage, was among those taken during the attack, as reported by Mayor Massillon Jean.
- The attackers broke through a wall to enter the property, according to Jean.
- No demands or ransom requests have been made following the kidnapping, as reported by an AFP source.
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Gangs who have been violently fighting over control of Kenscoff commune in western Port-au-Prince on Sunday attacked St. Helena's orphanage, which is part of the French humanitarian organization Nos Petits Frères et Soeurs (NPFS), and abducted at least nine people, including an Irish missionary and a three-year-old boy, Massillon Jean, mayor of the town, said.
8 including an Irish missionary missing after gunmen storm Haiti orphanage
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Eight people including an Irish missionary and a three-year-old child remained missing Monday after gunmen stormed an orphanage in Haiti, the latest attack in an area controlled by a powerful collection of armed gangs.
Eight people, including an Irish missionary and a three-year-old child, are still missing after a group of gunmen stormed an orphanage in Haiti, the poorest Caribbean country engulfed in chaos caused by rampaging armed gangs.
The United States announced this Monday that it closed its embassy in Haiti and confined employees inside the compound due to shootings near Port-au-Prince, the capital of the Caribbean country.
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