Gunmen Steal Food from Haiti Flood Victims
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Gunmen raided homes and stole food from Haitians outside aid distribution centers as U.N. troops struggled on Friday to maintain order in the chaos left by floods in which 2,000 people may have died.
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GONAIVES, Haiti Sept. 22, 2004 - UN peacekeepers fired into the air to keep a hungry crowd at bay Wednesday as aid workers handed out bread, the first food in days for some in this city devastated by floods
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More than a week after floods devastated this impoverished Haitian city, aid workers were struggling to bring food and clean water to thousands of residents, some still perched on roofs.
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GONAIVES (Haiti) - Desperate Haitians in flood ravaged Gonaives are mobbing relief workers to steal food aid, prompting the United Nations to rush more peacekeepers in to stem the looting.
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Disaster relief operations are underway in Haiti, where about 700 people were killed and at least 1,000 are missing in flooding spawned by Tropical Storm Jeanne.
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GONAIVES, Haiti  - Survivors of devastating  flooding in Haiti wandered mud-clogged streets in search of  food on Tuesday as officials said 662 people had been killed  and more than 1,000 were missing.
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An armed gang who fled with hostages after freeing 30 people held at a bank in Venezuela are captured.
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Street gangsters are holding up aid convoys, crashing food distributions, breaking into homes to steal food and shooting anyone who gets in their way, subjecting tens of thousands of weary storm survivors to life-threatening delays
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Gunmen kidnapped 26 workers from a refrigerated food factory Sunday in western Baghdad in what appeared to be a new sectarian attack, a security official said.
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At least seven of a dozen children kidnapped on their way to school in Haiti are returned to their families.
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Port-au-Prince Rescuers face washed-out roads and increased crime as they seek to deliver emergency aid to vast areas of Haiti, where more than 700 people were killed after weekend landslides and flooding triggered by Tropical Storm Jeanne.
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Gunmen snatched two Americans and a  Briton from a house in an affluent neighborhood of central  Baghdad on Thursday, the latest in a nearly six-month campaign  of abductions of foreigners in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen abducted two Italian aid workers and two Iraqis in central Baghdad yesterday in a brazen attack that will alarm foreigners who are already on edge from widespread kidnappings.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - Gunmen kidnapped two Spanish aid workers with the medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) in the north Somalia region of Puntland on Wednesday, their driver and a local official said.
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Gunmen abducted five foreigners Friday in Nigeria's restive southern oil heartland, with at least three of them seized and spirited away in a speedboat, officials said.
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A French journalist was kidnapped Sunday in northern Somalia by gunmen who apparently were demanding a $70,000 ransom, authorities and a media watchdog said.
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By Joseph Guyler Delva in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Andrew Buncombe in Washington. Armed gangs roamed Haiti yesterday, stealing food from the hungry and hope from entire communities as the poorest country