Russian and Indian Abducted, U.N. Says
From Times Wire Reports
A Russian and an Indian have been kidnapped in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, which has seen a surge in abductions for ransom, U.N. officials said.
“The Russian is a U.N. contractor who works with a civil aviation company, but not a member of the U.N. peacekeeping mission,” said Damian Onses-Cardona, a spokesman for the United Nations in Haiti.
He said the two were seized over the weekend.
Little was known about the Indian citizen.
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