US efforts to free missionaries kidnapped in Haiti continue ‘around the clock’
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A week after 17 members of a US-based missionary group and their driver were kidnapped in Haiti, authorities say they could be anywhere on the island. The kidnappers have demanded a ransom of $1 million per hostage and the Biden administration says efforts are continuing "around the clock" to bring them home. The hostages include 16 Americans, a Canadian and a Haitian, with five children – the youngest of which is 8 months old – among them. Some 455 people have been kidnapped in Haiti this year alone.