The U.S. State Department on Thursday confirmed that two U.S. citizens have been kidnaped in Haiti.
“I can confirm the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Haiti. We are in regular contact with Haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our U.S. Government interagency partners, but I don’t have any other specific updates to offer at this time,” State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said during a briefing.
Jean-Dickens Toussaint and his wife, Abigail Michael Toussaint, were reportedly kidnapped on March 18.
The couple, from Tamarac, Florida, were on their way to Leogane in Haiti to visit family. But they and another person were snatched off a public bus in the Port-Au-Prince area of Haiti, and never made it to their destination….