"US missionary"

Two of the 17 foreign missionaries kidnapped by a notorious street gang in Haiti last month have been released, Ohio-based Christian Aid Missionaries said Sunday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - An armed gang in Haiti holding members of a U.S. Christian missionary organization hostage is seeking a ransom of $1 million per person in exchange for their release, the Haitian justice minister told The Washington Post on Tuesday.

U.S. and senior Haitian officials on Monday worked to free 17 members of an Ohio-based Christian aid organization who were kidnapped over the weekend in Haiti, while local unions and other groups launched a general strike to protest the worsening security situation and gang violence racking the Caribbean nation.

The body of American missionary-adventurer John Allen Chau may never be recovered from the lost island where he fell in a volley of arrows fired by a reclusive tribe whose existence is threatened by the modern world, say experts.