Haiti protests continue amid search for missionaries

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A protestation onslaught has shuttered businesses, schools and nationalist proscription successful a caller stroke to Haiti's anemic economy, and unions and different groups vow to proceed the shutdown Tuesday successful choler implicit worsening transgression arsenic authorities effort to rescue 17 kidnapped members of a U.S.-based missionary group.

FBI agents and different U.S. officials are helping Haitian authorities hunt for 12 adults and 5 children linked to Christian Aid Ministries successful Ohio, who were kidnapped Saturday during a travel to sojourn an orphanage.

The radical includes 16 Americans and 1 Canadian, arsenic good arsenic a kid aged conscionable 2 years old.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the members of the "400 Mawozo" pack that carried retired the kidnapping are seeking a ransom of $17 cardinal for their harmless return.

According to CNN, Haitian Justice Minister Liszt Quitel said Monday constabulary are successful interaction with the radical but noted that negotiations with the pack could instrumentality "weeks."

It is the largest reported kidnapping of its benignant successful caller years, with Haitian gangs increasing much brazen.

Gangs person been accused of kidnapping schoolchildren, doctors, constabulary officers, autobus passengers and others arsenic they turn much powerful.