Two U.S. citizens have been kidnapped in Haiti, the State Department confirmed on Thursday. Jean-Dickens Toussaint and his wife, Abigail Michael Toussaint, were reportedly abducted on March 18.
"We are in regular contact with Haitian authorities and we'll continue to work with them and our U.S. government interagency partners," State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said during a briefing.
The Toussaints, who were in the country to visit family, according to relatives, got caught up in a wave of gang-related kidnappings. The U.N. estimates that 60% of Port-au-Prince is controlled by gangs. On the streets of the capital, Haitians say it's more like 100%.At least 101 kidnappings were reported in the first two weeks of March alone, with another 208 people killed in gang clashes during that period, according to the U.N. Most kidnapping victims are Haitian, and gangs pressure families into giving large sums of money for their release.
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