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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian and U.N. police were searching Thursday for a Canadian medical aid worker who was kidnapped in the hills above the Caribbean nation’s capital.
Nadia Lefebvre, 32, was seized early Wednesday, said U.N. police spokesman Fred Blaise. She is on a short-term assignment in Haiti for the Paris-based medical organization Medecins du Monde, or Doctors of the World.
A spokeswoman for the group declined to comment.
Lefebvre’s is the 20th confirmed kidnapping in Haiti this month. The increase in kidnappings-for-ransom is likely linked to strengthening gang activity, Blaise said.
