PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — American nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her daughter had been freed Wednesday, practically two weeks after they had been kidnapped in Haiti’s capital, in line with help group El Roi Haiti.

The Christian group based by Dorsainvil’s husband requested that neither she nor her household be contacted: “There is still much to process and to heal from in this situation,” the group stated in a press release.

The group added that it confirmed the protected launch “with a heart of gratitude and immense joy.” No different particulars had been instantly accessible, together with whether or not any ransom was paid.

Witnesses instructed The Associated Press that armed males seized the New Hampshire native and her younger daughter in late July from a clinic in a gang-controlled space of Port-au-Prince the place Dorsainvil works.

The Christian group has supplied medical care, training and different primary providers to folks within the nation’s poorest areas.

Gang warfare has more and more plagued Haiti for the reason that 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Gang members recurrently killed, rape and maintain residents for ransom. An area nonprofit has documented 539 kidnappings since January, a big rise over earlier years.

In a video posted on the El Roi Haiti web site, Dorsainvil describes Haitians as “full of joy, and life and love,” folks she was blessed to know.

In a weblog submit, El Roi Haiti stated Dorsainvil fell in love with Haiti’s folks on a go to there after the devastating 2010 earthquake hit the Caribbean nation.

Dorsainvil graduated from Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, the place a program helps nursing training in Haiti.

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