He was abducted thursday morning while serving in their Community Near the capital of haiti. I want to bring in cnn National Correspondent athena jones for the latest on this. What are officialsg about this alleged abduction . Reporter hi, frederica. We know u. S. Authorities are working with our haitian counterparts and agencies to try to resolve this crisis. We dont know or it is unclear who is responsible for this kidnapping and whether theyve made any demands, whether for ransom or anything else. We do have a statement from the christian humanitarian organizationriginally from New Hampshire that alex was working for. Ey say alex is a deeply comp compassionate person. She has worked tirelessly to bring relief to the suffering of people of haiti in the name of jesus. Their highest priority is to return safely alex and her child. They want to limit the information they provided. They say it happened thursday morning at the campus near the capitol of portauprince. The context of all of
to defeat and dismantle the gangs to retore security across the country. bottom line, we are still awaiting more details of this scary dangerous situation there in haiti. athee naloxone jones, cnn, new york. and earlier, i spoke with pierre esperonze of the national human rights defense network about the situation in haiti. he said the government needs to be doing more. what do they do to protect the haitian population? nothing. there are connections between the gang and the authority. and many police officers. that is why the gang does whatever they want. they kidnap, kill people. and then, don t stop them.
most of the kidnap being in haiti since june. so you are describing that it s your belief that the gangs have the upper hand and influence over police and what government structure there is. pierre esperonze, we appreciate your time and we re all hoping for the best of an outcome from this situation. thank you. thank you. all right. an explosion ripped through a political convention in northwestern pakistan and police say it was a suicide bomber. so far at least 44 people are dead and more than 120 injured. no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. pakistan s prime minister has condemned the attack saying, quoting now, terrorists are enemies are pakistan, end quote. turning now to russia where officials say ukraine is behind drone attacks that targeted moscow earlier today, one of which hit a shopping center and was caught on video.